A review by abby_writes
Land of Love and Ruins by Oddný Eir

4.0

This book is, in a word, unusual. The author structures it like a travel journal, each day demarcated like an almanac, but instead of days filled with tourism and exploration, she writes of her country, her past, and ruminates on the philosophical, the mundane, the potential of the future. Parts of this book are beautiful, but parts dragged on for me -- particularly in the second half. Although thin in size, this book is deceptively dense and rather slow-moving. I waded through it in pieces.