Books: Calling Out for You
September 16, 2010 | Books
I just finished reading Calling Out for You by Karin Fossum, a Norwegian author. (The book is also known as The Indian Bride, as it was published in the United States.) Interesting read, but the book ended so abruptly that I wondered if something was missing from the book. I liked her writing well enough to read another of her books, but I feel as if three chapters got lopped off the end of this book.
I still get hung up on some of the translations. In some other books written by Norwegian authors, I thought it was odd to see a napkin called a serviette, which is what it’s called in Norway. But, no, I guess that’s what they call it in British English too. In this Fossum book, the one that popped out at me was when someone took out a “griddle cake,” which I believe was probably lefse. It would have made more sense to me to call that a flatbread.
Ah well. That’s the fun of reading various translations.
September 17th, 2010 at 7:28 am
speaking of norwegian flatbread (not lefse because i have to try out my grandma’s griddle this winter), do you have a good recipe for it? we only had flatbread every so often at holidays growing up, but it was some tasty stuff!