Margaret Atwood is one of my favourite authors, but I've never read Alias Grace before. It's very well written, as always, but the tone is rather different from works set in a not too distant future like The Handmaid's Tale or Oryx and Crake.

A muffin and a cup of red rooibos Kusmi tea are not a bad combination while reading, and in this case I will have to say thank you to my youngest son, who decided to make a whole plate of wonderful chocolate muffins yesterday. He made them for his outing earlier today and brought four huge muffins with him to share with his friends. Luckily there was one left for me as well.