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Brrr. Not just cold but chilling. I'm not sure how much actually happened in this short book but it certainly had atmosphere and uncertainty.

Donated by a friend and I've just started it. It's keeping me reading as I've no idea how this will go!

11-year-olds Siss & Unn experience an intense, almost mystical girl-crush intimacy hanging out after school. Unn confesses she has a secret. She skips school to explore a local frozen waterfall formation. When she doesn‘t return, Siss is haunted. Loss, grief, lost innocence, the unspoken, the unknowable. Odd, fragile, eerie, with a persistent melancholy, yearning for friendship, intensity of young friendships. 1963, trans. from Norwegian 1993

A hauntingly beautiful little novella that ebbs into poetry and away from realism. In this isolated mountain community the natural world seems mysterious and perilous. A bond is made by two young girls, a sense of finally finding a kindred spirit. When one disappears the other will be desperate to find her. It has fairy tale tones, a dreamlike feel, many of the characters are colourless & nameless while the young girls are the two bright spots.

A haunting winter-themed book with a snow white cover. #12ColoursofDecember #wintergames2020 #merryreaders, @Clwojick

+20 +1 points

“ All of a sudden she was no longer alone. She had found someone to whom she could tell everything”

“These were not searching or envious eyes; there was desire in them - when she was quick enough to meet them”

Starting a new adventure!! This time Scandinavian atmosphere!!

I‘m not a fan of metaphorical stories so this is a miss for me. This novella is haunting and atmospheric- a perfect winter read for readers that enjoy allegories.

Starting this today for the Goodreads read along with Karen. Seems perfect for this time of year.

#Decembertbr
Queenie- Family Book Club
Mystery In White - just for fun Christmas book
The Ice Palace - Goodreads read along
NeedTo Know - Book Club

#HollyJollyReading

Visited the library after work today to pick up my hold on the Ice Palace, my book for Norway from my reading #aroundtheworld challenge... Left with many more books than expected AND I‘m already in the middle of a big reading slump AND trying to attempt to read one of the big books this year, Priory of the Orange Tree. How am I going to get these read? #libraryhaul #oopsabookhaul

Since I was reading a bio of Katherine Swynford, why not also read Seton's Dragonwyck. Seton is who introduced this person to me.

#PopSugar19 28/50 (1 mil ratings - TGWTDT / plant on cover - MOTM)
#AtoZLitsy19 20/26 (I)
#ReadHarder19 10/24 (neurodiverse - TGWTDT)
@BookishMarginalia
#AroundtheWorld19 1/52 (Norway)

Leaving oxford in 3 days! It‘s the bookshops I think I‘ll miss most - my hometown has one bookshop and a very small public library. I go to both regularly, mainly because I worry so much about bookshops and libraries in small towns closing down and never opening again, but I‘ve been spoilt in oxford and I‘m gonna miss them so much. Waterstones has been the place I go to breathe deeply and be surrounded by books when I‘ve had panic attacks all year

So much of this book was beautifully written, the descriptions of quiet but deadly Norwegian winter but the dialogue was brittle and repetitive and I just couldn't love it.

A small book haul from the library (books for sale)! They were giving away large print books, and I decided to take The Ice Palace by Vesaas. I read it like 16 years ago, and I remember liking it. It's up for a re-read.

Another great story by Vesaas. I love these Scandinavian atmosphere. Almost as good as The Birds!

First finish of 2017! Short and really good. #192016 #1963 #litsyAtoZ #letterIorV ??

Long day--7 hour drive home, unpacking car, unpacking bags, 2nd load of laundry is in. Finally sitting down with a needy cat and a good book.

Winter break reading, picked up at the library. For a Goodreads group January theme--is the theme obvious?

Breathtaking. Masterfully conveys the raw emotion of first connection. This is the story of the amalgamation of Siss and Unn, two eleven-year old girls whose lives are irrevocably changed by their meeting and burgeoning friendship.

"There was a waterfall some distance away that had built up an extraordinary mountain of ice around it during this long, hard period of cold. It was said to look like a palace, and nobody could remember it happening before." #translatedbooks #somethingforseptember #septphotochallenge #peterowenmodernclassics This book is achingly beautiful. You will leave your heart in the Ice Palace.