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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
Blair Braverman
3.89 AVERAGE
421 reviews for:
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
Blair Braverman
3.89 AVERAGE
For the tough girls who've wanted to be a little tougher. For the not-so tough girls who decided they didn't want to be so tough. For people who've wanted to go to Alaska, or Norway, or just the Artic. For people who want some respect put on their name.
For people who like dogs and sled dogs.
For people who like dogs and sled dogs.
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A great memoir about a woman getting to know herself in cold places. Finding what matters, learning her boundaries and how to be strong in the face of harassment by people and the weather. Interwoven narratives and new perspectives.
adventurous
medium-paced
The timeline was a little confusing in parts but otherwise a good read. I liked Arhild as a foil to Far.
I was expecting this book to be more focused on dog mushing. Instead, it deals with her relationship with various men throughout her life and how they tended to involve sexual acts against her consent. Nevertheless, I appreciated the cantankerous Norwegian old men she befriends later in life.
Braverman is a great writer. I like her current op-eds and essays better than this biography.
This was a great story of Braverman's adventures in seeking out fear and hard things and the pursuit of being tough, rolled up in her fierce love of the north. It was in many ways not what I expected, but I think I liked it even more for what it was. I laughed aloud at a few segments - while I'm no dog musher, my love for running with my huskies and the appeal of the deep north struck a chord of my own identity.
Enjoyable read though the majority of the book is about her sex life/sexual assaults and her small town life in Norway. It's her story to tell, but the book is marketed to be about dog sledding and I would have enjoyed more stories about that.