Reviews - Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

Definitely not what I was anticipating when I read the blurb. I hope that Blair was able to use this to work through her past. Much tougher read than I thought when I added it to my TBR list. Good peek into Norwegian culture and identity.

gracev1121's review against another edition

5.0

one of the best books i'll read this year. true story of a courageous, tough, smart, and inspiring women!!

karpediem's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

sriya's review against another edition

4.0

this was so interesting and so evocative!!! i wish there had been more dog stories but it was just such a remarkable story that i do not wish it too hard

mercourier's review against another edition

2.0

I can't quite put my finger on what I didn't like about this book. Maybe because I thought it was going to heavier on the feeling and experience of dog sledding and less of a memoir about working in a store in Norway and trying to find yourself. Braverman finds herself being sexually harassed at various times in her life and if you have problems reading about that this is not the book for you.

caroray's review against another edition

4.0

I loved this book. I think it did a really good job at portraying the tone of a small town in the north. I'm not from Switzerland or Alaska, but I pretty far north, and it was interesting to see the similarities between the two. It was very new to see a feminist side to an "adventure" novel, and I thought it was done impeccably. However there were some parts of the book that I would have liked to see fleshed out more.

dav's review against another edition

4.0

This is a somewhat strange, but very well written and edited memoir of an unusual young woman with a fascination of the North. The strangeness mostly comes from Blair's disassociative style, and the dry observation tone that seems to be a Scandinavian trait as the tone felt similar to the Swedish memoir [b:The Fly Trap|23164961|The Fly Trap|Fredrik Sjöberg|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1412531468s/23164961.jpg|7322306]. There is a subdued emotional intensity throughout, and frankly I teared up about half a dozen different times toward the end for various reasons.

As a father of daughters, some parts of it were hard to read in the beginning, but Blair revealed some truths that we fathers need to reckon with.