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Enjoyed this memoir of Sarah Moss' year in Iceland and learning more about the country and its culture.

Exploring Iceland with Sarah Moss

Great read, Moss's account of their time in Iceland. I felt I learned a fair bit about the country and folklore, plus more current and political views.
My first of her books, definitely more to.follow. 😊😍📖📚

On holiday and reading about the cold...
I met Sarah Moss in Bath and bought this, so she signed it :)

Novelist Moss went to Iceland for a year to teach and here relates her experience of living there, right after their economic collapse. I read this one to my mom and we have both traveled (separately) to Iceland, so we both really enjoyed comparing our experience with Moss‘s. This was a great way to go somewhere at a time that isn‘t so easy to do.

Had to pop to the Leeds Library today (first day back at work so it was a treat for me...!). Plus #mummysquirrel has shingles so I chose books she would like too and we can share 😁

The tagged book is a non-fiction account of when Moss lived in Iceland. I might read this for #readingeurope2020 but already have Burial Rites on my list for #iceland.

The Murphy is on my list for Montenegro and Molly & Me is about a detective dog.... 🐕 😁

Love Iceland, love Sarah Moss 💕⛰

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/15/iceland-december-daylight-...

The author took a job in Iceland in 2009 after the country's banks collapsed. (Unrelated to her reasons.) The look at life there was interesting and yet most of it felt incomplete to me. It got better near the end. I do hope to go to Iceland someday and do a horse trek.

The stupid heat has been plaguing MN this summer & a cooler read sounded inviting, so when I saw this title come across my feed I ordered it from the library immediately. A travelogue, this tells of a British woman who moves her family to Iceland to teach. She chronicles the difference in culture of course but it's heightened by the fact that she's there during Iceland's financial crisis & the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, an active volcano.

I picked this travel memoir to read in advance of our upcoming trip to Iceland. While Sarah Moss will definitely go on the list of authors I want to read more of - the writing is beautiful - she doesn‘t actually do much traveling while in Iceland. I enjoyed her stories, but expected a bit more. I did learn a lot from her account of living in Reykjavík during the Icelandic financial crisis.

#nonfiction2019 : turns out unexpectedly

It‘s been a DAY! Escaped to our local cafe for a mini-break, just had to get some time to myself for an hour!

It‘s front porch Friday! Enjoying lemonade and family reading time until the bugs come out!

So many books begging for my attention right now, I had a hard time deciding what to pick up next.

Decided to go with a book off my library stack of books set in Iceland, in advance of our trip next month!

Sarah Moss spends a year in the land of #fireandice, along with her young family. I love her writing, and her perspective on being an outsider in Iceland is just fascinating. #winterwonderland

And thank you for my Christmas card Katie - so lovely to hear from you 😊🎄

November 2018 was a very slow reading month for me. This time of year I am always challenged to find time to read!
Akata Witch: Nnedi Okorafor 3.5 🌟
Boxers/ Saints: Gene Luen Yang 3 🌟
The Morning They Came For Us: Janine Di Giovanni 3.5 🌟
Pachinko: Min Jin Lee 4 🌟
Currently reading: Names of the Sea: Sarah Moss
We Have Always Lived in the Castle : Shirley Jackson

What is life keeping you from reading today?

Love the idea of actually living and working in another country. Was always a dream of mind when I was younger. After visiting Iceland recently I thought if I was younger I‘d love to spend a year there. This author did just at the time Iceland went bankrupt. I loved reading this as I only know Iceland post all that. Great insight into the people and the culture. Loved this book . Love Iceland. @MrsMalaprop

This is my plane read. Iceland is one of my favourite places and this author lived there for a while right at the time of the GFC . I‘m finding it very interesting. @MrsMalaprop

Excited to start my first Sarah Moss.

I really enjoyed feeling like I was in a different world for a few days via this book - Sarah Moss and her family lived in Iceland for a year and it really is an other-worldly place with its climate and treeless landscape, midnight sun and northern lights. Sarah Moss is beautifully descriptive. I loved the domestic details of figuring out how to fit a family into a different culture. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Suddenly I want to visit Iceland!⬇️

When my bf and I went to Iceland in the Spring, we saw a lot of #waterfalls. So I thought I would highlight the books I read before, during and after my trip to the wonderful island of Iceland 📚👌

#HeatinJuly

I found "Names for the Sea" to be full of interesting facts and details of Icelandic culture, historical background and family stories. Yet the story was padded out with boring details of supermarket struggles and domestic complaints. I'll be giving Sarah Moss' "Names for the Sea" 2 stars.

Check out my full review on my blog ?

I‘m not sure how to describe this book - memoir and travel both sort of fit but don‘t quite. This was an impulse buy a few years ago and I can‘t even tell you how grateful I am that I bought it. The description was breathtaking, the people perfectly sketched in, the narrator/author perfect for the book. I‘ve bought more Iceland books and started badgering my parents and boyfriend for a trip to relive the sagas from my degree

The day passes through landscapes that simply don‘t make sense, mountains the mind can‘t read. It‘s like watching God in the act of creation, passing through fells of lava and rock, like seeing the world before it was finished. We‘re on day four of Creation, moving back towards day three, a world made of sky, fire, earth and water with none of the complications that came later.

I‘ve always loved reading on trains - I couldn‘t tell you exactly why. Still loving this book!

This has been on my shelf forever and I‘m so glad I‘m finally getting round to reading it! I‘m only 60 pages in but I know I‘m gonna love it already. It‘s the autobiography of an English woman whose whole family moved to Iceland and how that turned out. I studied Old Norse for my degree and have always wanted to go to Iceland since then, this book just makes me want to go more! #readaroundtheworld #iceland

Another pick from Sarah Moss. This book made me so happy I have already booked my trip to Iceland, because Moss‘ descriptions definitely made my wanderlust grow! Moss doesn‘t paint a rosy picture, but tells how difficult it was for “foreigners” to come to Iceland in 2009/10, and she doesn‘t hold back on the weird consumerism. Still, Moss has a genuine affection for Iceland and its people, and that is what really stands out for me 👌

#Spring is all over Denmark these days, although it is still pretty cold. I‘m spending this sunny afternoon on the couch with yet another piece of cake, another cup of coffee, and my current reads 👌

#currentlyreading #ReadingResolutions

I might be stretching it a bit for #similarbooks, but I love a good fiction-nonfiction pairing, with both book dealing with the same theme, country, author, whatever. Above is a stack of fiction-nonfiction pairings in subjects as wide as mental health in Victorian England, Iceland, rape culture and Jane Austen.

#ReadingResolutions

Pronunciation suggestions?

The first book from @cobwebmoth has arrived, and I‘m beyond excited! I can‘t wait to read this before my trip to Iceland on the 25th. Thank you so much Laura 👏 I thrilled to see what else you picked out for me!

#bookmail

Littens, I‘m going to Iceland over the Easter holiday (March 25th - April 1st)! I have visited Iceland before, in 2011, but I‘m so excited to visit again with my boyfriend 👏👏

Technically, I‘m on a bit of a book buying ban, but I‘ll have to see if I can sneak these three in somehow, because now I‘m craving books about Iceland.

If you guys have any tips, must see, info on the good bookstores, let me know 👍

#Iceland

Of course I loved it!

Moss took up a uni job & moved with her husband & 2 young children to #Iceland at the height of the financial crisis. She writes as much about 'being a foreigner' in a small country as about the place itself. If you want landscape, brooding & sagas, this isn't your book. Instead, you adjust with her to daily life, safety standards, vegetables, academia, knitting, everyday folklore, shame, & the wisdom of 8-yr-olds. 👇

How do you sleep at night?
How do you walk with your head held high?

Sidestepping, and sticking with my current read. Sarah Moss is living in Iceland during the financial crisis. Although she hears about the impact of it, she can see no visible signs of people struggling. This is a country that prides itself on equality. Finally she & a friend visit a food bank & thrift shop. He is horrified.

#DearMrPresident #fiercefeb @Cinfhen @batsy

"We have a long waiting list for jails in Iceland, and the law states that you have to have three weeks notice when you get to the top of the list, so that you can put your affairs in order with your family and at work."

Trying to read more non-fiction this year. History and travel feature strongly on my 'to read' shelves. Title of this one self explanatory

Finally starting my #readaroundtheworld book for #Iceland. Sarah Moss's nonfiction account of moving to Iceland with her young family for a year.

I had to grab this for the #TBR. I HAD to! Iceland is on the travel #bucketlist (anywhere with puffins is, of course!) and this account of a British transplant living in Iceland sounds good enough to overcome my aversion to nonfiction. Plus this cover just makes me want to go to there 🛩

I picked this up on my recent trip to Iceland (yay non US editions!) and was excited to read more about this strange and enchanting place. Overall I liked it, but I wish she wrote more about the countryside; she barely leaves Reykjavik for most of the book. Worth a read more as a memoir than a travelogue.

I quite possibly enjoy travel memoirs more than I thought. This is the second one I've read that has surprised me. I've never been to Iceland, but Sarah Moss manages to make it sound amazing but real and flawed at the same time. That way you love something and yet kind of hate it sometimes? She captured that.

Day 2 #UncannyOctober #NFaboutacountryyoudliketovisit 🌏 Most of my International travel has been to Asia & the U.K. Here are 3 books from my #TBR list from countries I'd like to visit someday: Names for the Sea for Iceland, The Caliph's House for Casablanca, Morocco, & Tracks for the Australian Outback. And, reading and salivating over the food in Grape, Olive, Pig when I reviewed it last year made me want to visit Spain all the more.

I visited Iceland in 2011, and ever since then I have been dying to go back. My bf has never been, and he really want to experience this great island as well, so we are talking about going in 2018 🤞🤞 in preparation for our maybe-trip, I would love to read this #NFaboutacountryIdliketovisit - I love Moss' writing, and have heard good thing about this non-fiction book about her time living in Iceland 👌

#UncannyOctober

Some #blue books from my shelves. #30daysofreadathon

@DeweysReadathon

Just got home from an amazing trip to Iceland. I picked up the tagged title at a Reykjavik bookstore, and while I felt funny not buying an Icelandic writer I had to go with @Bibliogeekery's recommendation (and it's about Iceland, after all).

Photo is of a small waterfall in Þingvellir ??

This book was a really enjoyable read. The author's outsider observations on Iceland and Icelandic culture were interesting and enlightening (especially welcome while I was recently traveling in Iceland). She combines observation with research. This book enriched my time in Iceland and would be an interesting read for anyone interested in Iceland.

I love this quote! I'm home now but am still reading about Iceland (and wishing I was still there!)

All this hiking is making my muscles ache! Airbnb bath time! 😍

😍😍😍 Iceland!

Next up on the Iceland reads! 📚😍

Lava field 😍 Iceland!