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Publishing in Iceland Where Reading Is a National Sport

A close up on publishing in Iceland, and the country’s world-famous Christmas book flood

This month, our Publishing Industry Insights series takes us all the way to Iceland to discover more about its thriving literary scene, and to hear about one of its most renowned traditions:  Jólabókaflóð – aka Christmas book flood.

With around 330.000 inhabitants, Iceland is certainly one of the smallest book markets in the world. Nevertheless, it boosts one of the highest rates of books per capita (3.5 books every 1,000 inhabitants!) and Icelanders are famous to be a nation of bookworms. According to a study conducted by Bifröst University in 2013, 50% of them read at least 8 books per year, while an impressive 93% of them read at least one. What is more, according to BBC Magazine, one in ten Icelanders will publish a book in their life!

Jólabókaflóð refers to the Icelandic tradition of publishing the majority of new books during the weeks before Christmas. I guess this tradition can be traced back to when the variety of goods available in Iceland was very limited and therefore opting for a book as a Christmas present was a good bet.

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yeahwrite

Jólabókaflóð looks like the coolest word ever.

Also go Iceland!

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mygingerheartisinlondon

I really wanna go to Iceland !

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Damn, Internet, why ?

I just want to watch a movie ... a movie I can’t see (in a cinema, I mean) in my country ... But the whole web does’nt agree.

Why ?? :’(

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HISTORY MEME : 1/6 WOMEN

Olympe de Gouges (7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793), born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience. She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s. As political tension rose in France, de Gouges became increasingly politically involved. She became an outspoken advocate for improving the conditions of slaves in the colonies as of 1788. At the same time, she began writing political pamphlets. Today she is perhaps best known as an early feminist who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male–female inequality. She was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror for attacking the regime of the Revolutionary government and for her close relations with the Girondists.
Olympe’s last moments were depicted by an anonymous Parisian who kept a chronicle of events during the French Revolution: “Yesterday, at seven o’clock in the evening, a most extraordinary person called Olympe de Gouges who held the imposing title of woman of letters, was taken to the scaffold, while all of Paris, while admiring her beauty, knew that she didn’t even know her alphabet…. She approached the scaffold with a calm and serene expression on her face, and forced the guillotine’s furies, which had driven her to this place of torture, to admit that such courage and beauty had never been seen before…. That woman… had thrown herself in the Revolution, body and soul. But having quickly perceived how atrocious the system adopted by the Jacobins was, she chose to retrace her steps. She attempted to unmask the villains through the literary productions which she had printed and put up. They never forgave her, and she paid for her carelessness with her head.” (x)
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mygingerheartisinlondon

My hero and my model on earth 

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These are some facts that J.K.Rowling let slip in numerous interviews. Facts that tell us what all happened nineteen years later, with our three heroes, Harry, Ron, and Hermoine and other wonderful characters,

~ Azkaban no longer uses Dementors as guardians.

~George Weasley married Angelina Johnson and had 2 children named Fred and Roxanne. 

~Harry made sure that the Wizarding world knew that Snape was a hero and on Dumbledore’s side.

~Slytherin House became more diluted and was no longer solely pureblood; however its dark reputation lingers. 

~Harry lost the ability to speak Parseltongue. 

~Umbridge was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned for crimes against Muggleborns.

~The Resurrection Stone is now buried in the Forbidden Forest after being pressed into the ground by a centaur’s hoof.

~ Voldemort’s curse on the DADA position at Hogwarts has been lifted.

~Viktor Krum fell in love with a woman back home in Bulgaria.

~The Death Eater’s Dark Marks eventually faded to look like a scar. It will no longer burn or hurt.

~ The Quibbler is back to publishing articles about the lunatic fringe & is appreciated for its unintentional humour.

~Members of the DA still have their coins, as they are like badges of honor. 

~Neville Longbottom worked as an Auror before moving on as the Herbology professor at Hogwarts.

~The remaining Death Eaters were killed or imprisoned in Azkaban for their crimes, with the exception of the Malfoys.

~Luna Lovegood married the grandson of the Newt Scamander, author of ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ 

~Firenze survived his wounds and was welcomed back into the Centaur herd.

 ~Harry will never become Headmaster of Hogwarts since an academic career just isn’t him.

~Hagrid was still working at Hogwarts by 2017, at 88 years old.

~Draco Malfoy really cares about his son, Scorpius Malfoy. He is growing him up to be a better person than he was.

~Centaurs realized that “pro-human leanings were not shameful.

~Draco and Harry never became friends, but they did come to understand and appreciate each other better.

~Hermione tells Scrimgeour that she is not planning to embark on a career in Magical Law. Ironically, that’s where she ends up.

~After his death, Voldemort is forced to exist in the stunted infant-like form that Harry sees in the King’s Cross-like Limbo.

~Harry would  take his family to visit Dudley’s when they were in the neighbourhood (occasions dreaded by James, Albus and Lily).

~Aberforth is still at the Hog’s Head “playing with his goats”.

~The number of Dementors have been greatly diminished because despair and degradation have been lessened in the world.

~Arthur Weasley fixed Sirius’ motorbike and gave it to Harry.

~Nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, the school for witchcraft and wizardry is led by an entirely new headmaster (“McGonagall was really getting on a bit”) as well as a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. That position is now as safe as the other teaching posts at Hogwarts, since Voldemort’s death broke the jinx that kept a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor from remaining for more than a year.

~Hagrid never married, although he had a relationship with a giantess.

~Kingsley Shacklebolt became the Minister of Magic after the Second Wizarding War.

~Harry will not train to be an animagus; his “energies are going to be concentrated elsewhere and he’s not going to have time to do that.

~Audrey Weasley is wife of Percy Weasley, and they both  have 2 daughters, Molly and Lucy.

~In the aftermath of the war, the Order was disbanded once and for all.

~Luna has twin boys named Lorcan and Lysander with Rolf Scamander.and apparently  travels the world, looking for mad creatures.

~Hermione advanced the rights of magical creatures & eradicated the old pro-pure-blood laws in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

~The head of the Auror Office as of 2007 is Harry Potter.

~Lavender Brown was attacked by Fenrir Greyback. Hermione saved her but she was already injured. What happened to her later on was never really told.

~Neville Longbottom’s students were impressed when he showed them his Dumbledore’s Army’s Coin.

~Harry, Ron and Neville didn’t return to Hogwarts for their 7th year. They went straight to get training as aurors and Neville went to work as an auror before becoming a Professor.

~Harry sometimes visits Hogwarts to give talks on DADA.

~Hermione is James’ godmother.

~Hermione Granger was the only member of the trio who returned to Hogwarts to complete their seventh year.

~Ron worked with George in WWW for some time and then became an Auror.

~Ginny became a professional Quidditch player for the Holyhead Harpies and become the senior Quidditch correspondent for the Daily Prophet.

~After the war, Hermione found her parents in Australia and restored their memories.

THE LAST ONE

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byemerp

THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY

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mygingerheartisinlondon

Happy End <3

(maybe except for Lavender Brown)

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