Land of Love and Ruins | 
bailedMy final #litsypassport book of the year and I bailed. Written in first person with a narrator who rambles and is unclear. I read 50 pages and give up trying to see if an understandable chapter will appear.
(P.S. Bjork is quoted on the cover as saying this author “can best express the female psyche of now.” The narrator is so confusing and unstable, and I hope to hell she‘s wrong.)
Still reading in the sun - still reading about Iceland. And the longing is growing and the next Iceland holiday still far far away.
#iceland #icelandiclit #icelandicliterature #landofloveandruins #oddnyeir
pickThis autobiographical novel written as diary entries covers a whole host of topics from Iceland after the economic crisis - belonging, home, love, land ownership, natural resources, the spirit of places, sagas, siblings, hermits - with memorable characters and astounding descriptions of places around the country. This is the first by the author to be translated into English and I'm hoping for more.
bailedThis is a strange, quirky little book that pulls and pushes... and I have no patience for it right now. It seems to bend genres, mixing diary and novel in an odd melange. Some beautiful language, but not enough to keep me invested. Yes, the blurb from Bjork should have cued me in.
DNF in page 111. I had a hard time caring about the characters and I felt like there wasn't any point to the book. I know at one point sustainability was going to be mentioned... i think I'm going to give up on my themes of each month. I might be starting grad school this fall. I want to get through as many TBRs as possible. #iceland #dnf #literature #time
"And I should put together my own almanac and consult it, of course. My first kiss, my first broken heart, first pang of conscience, first Declaration of Independence, first complete thought" -pg 49, land of love and ruins #iceland #translation #march
Taking a break from medicine March. I'm not as far as I'd like to be in my goals solely because I'm rewatching greys anatomy. #stillmedicinetho! #iceland #translation #imonaroll
pickI read this book last year and completely forgot to write a review. I remember it being very very strange. Strange in a good way though!
Littens! I present to you my humble November roundup. November was a tough month but I'm so happy I was able to continue reading. Favorite this month is a no brainer- Zadie Smith's newest novel Swing Time. I'm so inspired by you all to make December my best reading month! ❤️📚
So inspired by everyone's November roundup posts! Litsy readers are the best readers. Someone read 76 books in November! 😱😱 I'm a bit afraid to look at my roundup. Maybe I'll post it after I'm done with my current read. What's 100 pages by the end of today? 😂😂😂#motivated
"I always dream of it: that something will open my eyes, and open everything inside me as well."
pick“In a constellation that contains Ben Lerner and Terry Tempest Williams, there shines Oddný Eir: poet, environmentalist, Björk collaborator... Every essayistic tangent in these diary entries—whose endless succession of memorial days includes Cream-Puff Day and the Feast of Psychoanalysis—folds itself back into the exceptionally tender core, which is all the more tender for being so fiery with passion.”
—Jonathan Woollen, Politics & Prose
pickA quietly strange book. Best read for the glimpse into the mind of its protagonist and her thoughts on, well, pretty much anything, rather than plot or action. Out in October.
Winner of The Icelandic Women's literature prize 2012.a literary book combines many forms of writing and thought a diary of a relationship a raw look into the daily issues .Really wonderful unique author.
