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Tim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Tim Ecott
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January 2011
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"Picked this up while I was in the Faroes after working aboard a ship with several Faroese crew and it just made me fall even more in love with the islands. Beautifully written, and I enjoyed the natural aspects immensely."
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"I finished reading this book here in the Faroe Islands. Perfect book!"
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"I was in the Faroe Islands this Summer, and I wanted to find a book that conveyed how compelling this place is, from the basalt cliffs rising out of the fjords to the no-nonsense good nature of the people, and this book comes about as close to captur"
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"We're just over a year from our planned Faroe Islands trip, which means it's time for me to begin immersing myself in the history and literature of the Faroes. This was a great place to start! The title comes from how the concept of maybe, "kanska" i"
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“... men find islands appealing because they hold the promise of private kingdoms, imaginary holdfasts to escape the problems we cannot face at home. They are the lair of the Bond villain and the home of Prospero, sanctuaries where power can be wielded absolutely and the wide sea forms the ultimate moat.”
― The Land Of Maybe
― The Land Of Maybe
“Landt’s observations were meticulous and he is one of the few outsiders to record the unique way in which the Faroese measured time. They divided the day into what he called ökter – eight three-hour portions named after points of the compass. Twelve midnight was called ‘north’ while twelve noon was referred to as ‘south’. Six am became simply ‘east’ and six pm was ‘west’. Ninety-minute intervals were ‘half-eighths’, so that ten thirty pm would be north-north-west.”
― The Land of Maybe: A Faroe Islands Year
― The Land of Maybe: A Faroe Islands Year
Topics Mentioning This Author
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Summer Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks (do NOT delete any posts in this thread)
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Summer Challenge 2012: Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC
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The Seasonal Read...:
Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD
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2639 | 796 | Nov 30, 2017 09:01PM | |
| Ladies & Literature: Around the World Reading Challenge! | 825 | 251 | Mar 24, 2020 06:14AM | |
| Around the World ...: Madagascar | 14 | 863 | Jan 10, 2025 09:01AM | |
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Giro del mondo - Viaggio nel viaggio extra: Natale sta arrivando!
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| Pick-a-Shelf: 02 - February | 21 | 36 | May 27, 2025 05:16AM | |
| English Translati...: * Denmark (Greenland) (Faroe Islands) | 5 | 645 | Jun 20, 2025 07:28AM | |
| Pick-a-Shelf: * Completion | 100 | 54 | Apr 08, 2026 03:35PM |
