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Hildur Knútsdóttir

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Icelandic writer. The Night Guest, out September 3rd, published by Tor Nightfire.

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My taxes in Iceland pay for stadiums in Germany?

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The only thing I enjoy about watching football is seeing grown men cry.

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Haha!

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Thank god there are others, I thought I was the only one!

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My toxic trait is that I will think of doing something and I will think about it a lot and then I will start feeling really good about myself for doing this thing and I will feel like I have already done it and so I have already cashed in on the self gratulation and then never actually do the thing.

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He’s just sitting like this.

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Good morning

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I am coming at the end of September! Do you think that will do?

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I certainly seem to have picked the right time to go to the UK! 🎉

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Please please please!

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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this

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Sometimes I kind of wish for that thing I had when I was a kid where I would just read all kinds of books by all kinds of authors and I would not know a single thing about them and so I would never be disappointed by the things the said or did.

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I can be convinced that German is to blame.

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You can really hear how this is the mother of Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish. But I don't really know how Danish happened.

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Best find of the week for me: A recording of an Icelandic scholar reciting a poem in what is believed to be how the settlers of Iceland (aka vikings) spoke.

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Ég skrifa bæði fyrir unglinga og fullorðna 😉

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Probably! I know a few and they keep switching jobs because they keep being headhunted.

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It’s all over the news in Iceland today that we really need more doctors (especially family doctors). My feed is full of Americans making escape plans so I am just putting it out there.

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I kneel in the direction of Google HQ chanting my mantra, "the electricity needs of AI supercede the human requirement of an inhabitable planet" outside the window a choir of Boston Dynamics robot dogs bark the national anthem

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Hey me too! (Not on the list, though)

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It usually is!

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You can see that a paw is raised to strike. It did, but sadly I didn’t catch it on photo. Then he actually charged Uggi.

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3 seconds later

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Afternoon

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I may just be a simple country publicist, but Erewhon's 2024 is looking mighty fine! Give me a shout if you review & if you’re a reader, do not miss out on: Womb City 🌆 River Mumma 🌊 The Feast Makers 🔮 Fall of the Iron Gods 🤖 Escape Velocity 🚀 The Eyes Are The Best Part 👁️ The Deading 🐌

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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

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Heads up! Zenith Literary doesn’t exist. This is a fake agency and they don’t represent any of the books displayed on their home page. These are fucking predators.
zenithliterary.com/books/

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Here's a suggestion: ban it because it's killing Earth faster.

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Me: Yelling at my children from the couch. Uggi:

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He really is the best dog. But this morning we were cuddling in bed and he was laying in my arms and the suddenly he sneezed so hard and his head hit my nose and it was so painful that for a second I thought it was broken. But it wasn’t and he is still the best.

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Sounds like a plan!

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Don’t know about retirees. And pets have to quarantine.

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Are you looking for something in particular?

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They were so great and so deeply interested in everything we were learning about!

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There are so many older people in the University of Iceland! I studied literature and there were many older women in my classes who always sat at front and had read everything and asked so many questions. Then they flew to Bali the day before the final exam, they didn't need the credits. Legends.

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Yes, I think that unfortunately many of the visas given out here are dependent on employment. But the universities here are very cheap, and probably also grant student visas.

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Google says they are about 400.

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