Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home | 
pickStarting from his home in Shetland, Malachy Tallack follows the 60th parallel westward through the countries in traverses: Greenland, Canada, US (Alaska), Russia, Finland, Sweden, and Norway, ultimately arriving back home. He gives a bit of each place, including some history, and a bit of his own story. I really enjoyed this. He writes well and I feel like I can see each place right there with him.
pickA low pick. The travelogue bits were good, but the personal bits were somewhat repetitive (I feel rather churlish for saying that 😕). This did inspire me to read an Ann Cleeves Shetland book next and to dig out my copy of The Kalevala, so a net gain all round.
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That's my day planned.
(That's an upside down dog on the grass if anyone is wondering)
What do you do when it's -1 degrees Fahrenheit outside? Read books about places EVEN COLDER.
It's been a crazy week at work wrapping up the end of the year. So yesterday we made the trek to the Northshire in Manchester Center, VT to use our Christmas gift card. Perfect way to spend a cold day!
pickThis picture isn't great, but the book is! Author Malachy Tallack visits multiple different (cold) places around the world in this book of linked travel essays. I can't get enough of reading about cold places, so I loved it.
Travel memoir on a cool, rainy night. I love books that explore "sense of place" and this seems to be scratching all my itches, except it makes me want to take to the road.
I learned about 60 Degrees North here on Litsy and picked these babies up at the Wigtown Book Festival. The new one is not in the database yet but is an illustrated book of islands that were once thought to exist but found not too. Not sure of the US pub date.
This cozy fall weather is making me bust out my winter travel reads.
#chillyreads #travel #photoadaynov16
pickThis isn't a romp through various locales. Neither is it the sometimes amusing, always cantankerous ramblings of Theroux. Instead, this is a meditation on loss, grief, self, and home. It is beautiful.
pickThis isn't a romp through various locales. Neither is it the sometimes amusing, always cantankerous ramblings of Theroux. Instead, this is a meditation on loss, grief, self, and home. It is beautiful.
Then there was restlessness--that fizzing pressure within that makes me long for what is elsewhere, for what is far away. That restlessness, that joy and curse that I have known for most of my life, brings unease when I ought to be content....It sends me out into the world, almost against my will.
Lunchtime reading. I love the northern latitudes.
Hi there Litsy friends. You may not know this about me yet but I am a sucker for any book, fiction or non, set on a cold weather island. This one starts in the Shetland Islands, swoooooon.
