1/9: sooner rather than later

In mid-December I read Tove Jansson's True Deceiver, loved it, and looked forward to reading more of her fiction.  I'm now in the middle of The Summer Book.  At first I thought I should wait until summer to read it (so that the weather inside and outside the novel coincided), but I was too impatient to get more of this wonderful author's work--and it turns out that it's kind of nice to read a book set in warm weather when the temperatures outside aren't going much above freezing.