Category: Books

Book Report: Names for the Sea

People read travel stories about places they have never been in order to vicariously experience a trip they could never take themselves. Or they read...

Book Report: The Orenda

I read Joseph Boyden’s latest book, The Orenda, the same week that it finally became available in the U.S. But I haven’t written about it...

The Bookslut Gets Surreal

I really do want to offer you dear readers reblogs that are simple, but I must share the posts that I find most interesting. Once again, I...

Book Report: Frisky Business

Partway through 101 Reykjavík, I got fed up with Hlynur Björn. I had to take a break from him, so I picked up Tawna Fenske’s...

Book Report: The Story of the Blue Planet

My latest dive into Icelandic literature is The Story of the Blue Planet by Andri Snær Magnason, translated by Julian Meldon D’Arcy. At first every...