Category: Book Review

  • Book Review: Good morning, midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton

    Book Review: Good morning, midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton

    The beautiful cover of Good morning, midnight (affiliate link) was what grabbed my attention first. I am a sucker for dark nights, and as the spring is arriving here in Iceland the nights are becoming shorter and shorter. Then I turned the book around and I was sold. The book sounded intriguing and seemed to…

  • Book Review: Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

    Book Review: Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

    About the Author Auður Ava is an Icelandic author that just won the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize in 2018 and the Icelandic Literature Prize in 2016 for her book Ör (E. Hotel Silence) (affiliate link). She has published several other books, couple of noticeable mentions are Butterflies in November (Rigning í Nóvember) and The Greenhouse…

  • Book Review: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir – The Þóra Series

    Book Review: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir – The Þóra Series

    Instead of writing one post for every book in the Þóra Guðmundsdóttir (Thora Gudmundsdottir) series I decided to group them together and write one post about them all. (The links below are affiliate links) Þriðja Táknið (E. Last Rituals) – (4/5) Last Rituals is set in Reykjavik, and mainly at the University of Iceland. It was strange…

  • Book Review: The Awakening by Kate Chopin

    Book Review: The Awakening by Kate Chopin

    Reading can sometimes become quite expensive, books in Iceland, for example, can cost over €40. Which is simply just something I don’t agree with! I don’t think that reading should be an expensive activity! So I thought it could be a fun idea to review the old classics that you can get for free in…