The Dark: a Netflix original series

Some have referred this as a more grown up "Stranger Things." The kids in this series are in high school rather than middle school. Other than that, it shares many characteristics with the other series: a small town (this one in Germany), a government facility(a nuclear power plant), woods for kids to disappear in. 

Louis Hofman (Land of Mine) stars in this series as Jonas Kahnwald. 

Best books of 2017

An easy to use database (app) for finding best books by NPR. Use the filters on the left to narrow lists down:

https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2017/

The app features 374 books. 

Publisher's Weekly Top Ten,
https://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2017/top-10#book/book-10

Kirkus Review,
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/issue/best-of-2017/

Christmas Book Flood

In Iceland, there's a long tradition of giving books as gifts during the holidays. Iceland book gifting tradition is called "Jolabokaflod"
or "Christmas Book Flood." 

Each Icelander receives at least one book during the Christmas season. Gifts are typically opened on December 24th. Icelanders usually spend the night before Christmas reading.

This is what I want to do this year. No regular gifts. Just books. 

If you want to read more about Iceland, you may want to try these books:

Moss, Sarah. Names for the Sea.

https://guidetoiceland.is/connect-with-locals/aldasigmunds/the-icelanders-and-their-big-love-of-books