Þetta reddast - Iceland Day 1
We're in Iceland! Sleeping through the night on the flight worked better as a theory than a practice, but there was one point when I woke...
Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
Premiering in 1879, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House quickly rose to prominence because of its clear feminist themes. In this play, we see a...
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
Delving into Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales seems like it should be a fun and easy task. However, I have in front of me a whopper...
Isak Dinesen's Winter's Tales
Isak Dinesen, the pseudonym for writer Karen Blixen, wrote it Denmark in the early 1900s. She writes tales in the vein of Hans Christian...
Hakan Nesser's Borkmann's Point
They say the sign of a well-written mystery is one that allows you to figure out who the murderer is just before the author makes the big...
Henning Mankell's One Step Behind - A Kurt Wallander Mystery
Henning Mankell's One Step Behind follows Detective Kurt Wallander as he attempts to discover the murderer behind the death of three...
Why Iceland? Bjork, of course!
Before Iceland became an "it" tourist destination and I was still a freshman in high school, I was completely obsessed with the Icelandic...
