{"id":6232,"date":"2025-02-09T07:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=6232"},"modified":"2025-02-09T07:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T15:11:35","slug":"march-book-club-reykjavik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/march-book-club-reykjavik\/","title":{"rendered":"March Book Club: Reykjavik"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Join us on zoom for our March book club discussion of Ragnar Jonasson’s novel,\u00a0Reykjavik.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>We’ll meet at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 23rd, and in April, we’ll go back to one in person meeting and one zoom meeting.\u00a0 Goodreads description of the story: Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old L\u00e1ra decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjav\u00edk. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. Time passes, and the mystery becomes Iceland\u2018s most infamous unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there?<\/p>\n

Thirty years later, as the city of Reykjav\u00edk celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into L\u00e1ra’s case. But as he draws closer to discovering the secret, and with the eyes of Reykjav\u00edk upon him, it soon becomes clear that L\u00e1ra’s disappearance is a mystery that someone will stop at nothing to keep unsolved . . .<\/p>\n

Jonasson is one of my favorite writers – his books are concise and meticulously plotted, with characters and settings that are difficult to forget.\u00a0 He honed his skills translating Agatha Christie into Icelandic as a young man, and the lessons learned from the master paid off.\u00a0 He’s a wonderful writer.\u00a0 Copies available on this website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join us on zoom for our March book club discussion of Ragnar Jonasson’s novel,\u00a0Reykjavik.\u00a0\u00a0We’ll meet at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 23rd, and in April, we’ll go back to one in person meeting and one zoom meeting.\u00a0 Goodreads description of the story: Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old L\u00e1ra decides to spend the summer working for a couple … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[167,1985,100,1816,1984],"class_list":["post-6232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","tag-book-club","tag-march-2025","tag-minotaur-books","tag-ragnar-jonasson","tag-reykjavik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6234,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232\/revisions\/6234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}