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Sverrir Sigurdsson
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October 2020
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Viking Voyager: An Icelandic Memoir
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2020
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Digging into My Roots
A memoirist is supposed to depend mostly on his memory. But when I started writing my memoirs, I felt what was stored in my brain wasn’t enough. To get to the bottom of who I was, I needed to burrow into the consciousness of the people I came from.
My dad had researched the family tree of my maternal grandmother and traced it all the way to our ancestors who lived in Sognefjord, Norway in the lat Read more of this blog post »
My dad had researched the family tree of my maternal grandmother and traced it all the way to our ancestors who lived in Sognefjord, Norway in the lat Read more of this blog post »
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| I’ve never read a book like this! It’s a mix of personal stories and history, facts and imagination woven into very credible truth, all told in a hypnotic fashion. Following the author to Seville where her family was from is like a psychedelic trip t ...more | |
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| I’m glad the title of the book is reassuring. Otherwise, I would have thought the troubled juvenile never made it to adulthood, judging from his narrow escapes. The social workers’ reports are most interesting. Despite good intentions they haven’t a ...more | |
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| Tina’s recovery from eight years of childhood abuse is indeed a butter side up story. But the toast had to fall many times before it landed right. If she had followed the sensible path her kindhearted adoptive parents paved for her, the road would ha ...more | |
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| Sue Tidwell makes a convincing case for controlled hunting of wildlife, be it in Africa, Idaho or somewhere else on earth. She discusses in detail how human habitat has disturbed the balance of the world’s wildlife to such an extent that it is imposs ...more | |
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| I thoroughly enjoyed this hilarious story of two strangers (a British man and German woman) participating in a tuk-tuk race in India. Who would have thought a motorized rickshaw (that makes the tuk-tuk sound) is so difficult to operate? The scenes of ...more | |
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From Junkie to Judge: One Woman's Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction
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| This is a must read for everyone facing mortality, and who doesn’t? The author is a musical therapist for the terminally ill. His job is to help patients die peacefully and also to live meaningfully until they die. By helping them create poetry and m ...more | |
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| African Ways is a charming story about a British woman’s 3-year stay in a remote area in South Africa. In search of the sun, the author moved there with her husband and two small children. But the sun was really in the author’s heart. With affection ...more | |
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| I’m glad to read even old fools can launch the adventure of their lives. What better time is there to throw caution to the wind and give it a try? When the kids are grown and you’re enjoying financial stability after a lifetime of work? This is a gre ...more | |
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| Watch Out for Pirates by Jules Brown is a delightful account of travels in odd corners of the world. I particularly identify with his descriptions of Africa, where I worked for six years in the then newly independent states. Whether you are a homebou ...more | |
