Random Things Tours – Page 9 – Everything Is Better With Dragons

I’m looking forward to sharing this one with you, it’s a memoir by Icelandic author Thora Karitas Arnadottir.

The swans on the pond, quite abruptly began to sing. It was a singing so loud they were almost screaming. The swans were screaming, screaming as if they saw the horror of the world.

Gudbjorg Thorisdottir has been hiding from the ghost of an ugly secret for most of her life. When she finally faces the truth of what happened throughout her childhood, the ghost floats away. Painting an evocative picture of her life in Iceland, this is the story of a little girl who didn’t know how unnatural it was to experience both heaven and hell in the same house.

Thora Karitas Arnadottir (b. 1979) studied drama in the UK, and is a producer as well as appearing on stage and television. And the Swans Began to Sing is her first published book; her mother’s story, and formed the final dissertation for her MA in Creative Writing. The book was nominated for the Icelandic Women’s Literary prize Fjoruverdlaunin in 2016.

Website: Wild Pressed Books

Sex Drive Final Blog Tour Poster

Blurb

Arriving in New York with a failing relationship and a body she felt out of touch with, Stephanie Theobald set off on a 3,497 mile trip across America to re-build her orgasm from the ground up. What started as a quest for the ultimate auto-erotic experience became a fantastic voyage into her own body. She takes us from ‘body sex’ classes with the legendary feminist Betty Dodson to an interview with the former US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who was fired for suggesting that masturbation should be talked about in schools. Along the way, we are immersed in a weird, countercultural America of marijuana farms and ‘ecosexual sexologists’.

Sex Drive is a memoir about desire and pleasure, merging sexuality and spirituality,
eighteenth-century porn and enlightenment philosophy. A new sexual revolution has begun – and this time round, it’s all about the women.

Author Bio

Quête de Vision, pays basques Stephanie Theobald is a British journalist, novelist, public speaker and broadcaster known for her playful and
thoughtful work around sexuality and feminism. The Times described her as as ‘one of London’s most
celebrated literary lesbians’ and she writes regularly for the Guardian , the Sunday Times and Elle UK . She is the
author of four novels, most recently A Partial Indulgence (2010). She lives between London and Los Angeles.