Tag: Siss
Book letter #30 Mikael Niemi mixes Sami faith and labor history – Siss Vik’s book letter
Dear reader, it has been a tough time in terms of news. The death of Alexander Navalny deeply affected me. With his passing, the little light of hope I had…
Book letter #29 Thriller sensation Anna O disappoints – Siss Vik’s book letter
Dear reader, Uka’s book letter starts a bit grumpily, because I don’t like being told that something is the sensation of the year before the book is out. Especially when…
Book letter #28 Do self-help books work? – Siss Vik’s book letter
Dear reader! I hope you still have your femurs and kneecaps intact, now that we’ve got mixed weather and ice on the roads almost everywhere. Have you set any New…
Book letter #26 The Lord of the Rings project is complete – Siss Vik’s book letter
Dear friend, I hope you had a peaceful Christmas holiday and that you got exactly the books you wanted as gifts. Just before the bells ring in the new year,…
Book letter #23 Siss went bananas when Jon Fosse received the Nobel Prize – Siss Vik’s book letter
Whoohoo! I’m still on a winning spree. Perhaps you feel that you have already read enough about Fosse, but this is, after all, Litteratur-Norge’s answer to Karsten Warholm’s and Jakob…
Book letter #22 Elon Musk lives in a science fiction story – Siss Vik’s book letter
Dear readers! Surprisingly for myself, autumn 2023 has become the time for Great Biographies of Great Men, as I am now parallel-reading, or listening to, the biographies of Elon Musk…
Book letter #20 Joyce Carol Oates and municipal literature – Siss Vik’s book letter
Dear reader The public holidays are over and there are people and traffic in the streets again. It’s also a bit delicious. In this week’s book letter, I take a…
Book letter #18: Artificial intelligence (AI) is a Frankenstein’s monster for our time – Siss Vik’s book letter
Hello in the summer heat! This will be the last book letter before the holidays, where I look to “Frankenstein” to shed light on a development that frightens me. So…
Book letter #17 Tolkien’s description of nature has made me want to learn more about trees – Siss Vik’s book letter
Hey! As soon as the sun came out of its winter hibernation here in southern Norway, I dragged the camping chair out of the basement shed and set up in…
Book letter # 16 why are we afraid of poems – Siss Vik’s book letter
Hallais! I never have such strong literary FOMO as when I am at the literature festival in Lillehammer. No matter how early you get up or how late you go…