Random books from Thrin's library
The secret diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
The taking of Pelham one two three by John Godey
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Filthy lucre, or, The tragedy of Ernest Ledwhistle and Richard Soleway : a story by Beryl Bainbridge
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Interesting libraries: amandameale, avaland, bibliobibuli, devenish, Makifat, TurboBookSnob
LibraryThing authors: Helen Epstein (helenepstein)
Member: Thrin
CollectionsYour library (1,115), Wishlist (14), To read (5), All collections (1,129)
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Tagsfiction (466), crime fiction (195), non-fiction (106), drama (21), poetry (19), the sea (17), cooking (17), music (16), humour (15), history (14) — see all tags
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GroupsAustralian LibraryThingers, Boats and Sailing, Book Nudgers, British & Irish Crime Fiction, Cookbookers, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Cryptic Crosswords, DimSum Thing, History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift — show all groups
Favorite bookstoresGleebooks (Blackheath)
Favorite librariesBlackheath Library (Blue Mountains City Library Service)
About meBooks I am reading now or have recently read
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Eton Crop by Bill James (struggling)
The Price of Love (short stories) by Peter Robinson
New Flavors for Soups - Williams-Sonoma Inc.
The Complaints by Ian Rankin
Children of the Holocaust by Helen Epstein
The Return by Hakan Nesser
Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (didn't finish)
Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth
Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas
Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason
The Clothes on their Backs by Linda Grant
Peeling the Onion by Günter Grass
About my libraryMany of my books have gone to new owners but I am cataloguing those books too - or at least those the titles of which I can remember - because my main reason for joining LT is to discover new titles and authors through Connections, Similar Libraries, etc.
LocationBlue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
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posted by avaland at 7:55 am (EST) on Sep 23, 2009
posted by Cait86 at 6:21 pm (EST) on May 20, 2009
Many thanks for joining in and dropping me a note.
For what it is worth you and I share a 100% more books in common than I do with anyone in the Ancient History group where I am now active.
Books we share:
Barchester Towers and the Warden (Bantam Classics) by Anthony Trollope,Bleak House by Charles Dickens,Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte,
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery,London AZ by Geographer' Map,Co.,Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser,The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Today Show Book Club #8) by Alexander McCall Smith,The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfield the Younger by Charles Dickens,A Room with a View by E. M. Forster,War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy,Wives and Daughters (Penguin Classics)
Please to note, it is very rare in life that someone admits to having read The Little Prince-that I love. So thanks for listing it. ... :)
Urquhart
posted by Urquhart at 9:54 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2009
Thanks for your welcome message. I notice you have Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd in your 'Books I'm reading now' list and was wondering how you like/liked it. I currently have it in my 'to read' pile right now (it's quite a big pile so I'm not sure when I'll get around to it...). Worth a read do you think?
posted by bookishness.net at 1:14 am (EST) on Feb 14, 2009
posted by deebee1 at 4:59 am (EST) on Nov 22, 2008
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posted by moibibliomaniac at 11:16 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2008
My constant, although not only, goal is to pin down the meaning of 'transcendentalist unitarian' and the degree to which I am one. American Unitarianism has roots in Transylvania and in early American Puritanism but really rises out of American Transcendentalism of the 19th century, largely the thinkers and writers around [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]. As thinkers for themselves, a good many, now probably most, moved away from Christianity. We are Unitarian in two respects: 1. The trinity is incomprehensible and not real, 2. We're all in it together. The Unitarians merged with the Universalists in the 60's; the Universalists think that a perfect God could not condemn anyone to everlasting hellfire. There are principles of Unitarian/Universalism, but they are not enforced.
Transcendentalists are idealists as the German idealists were; we got it through the English, Coleridge and others. There is something outside the realm of ordinary experience that has important bearing on us. There are truths that cannot be proved, for example that it is wrong to commit murder.
So, I attend a Unitarian Universalist church and participate in a variety of functions there. I spend time reading and pondering philosophy, theology, popular cosmology, spiritual works, psychology... I do a little bit of volunteer work. I take responsibility for myself.
I have taken up recently an incipient interest in 'emergence' and have gotten on track in it with Stuart Kauffman. My wish list has more academic works on the subject. Foundational works for my 'transcendental unitarianism' are The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener, the religious works of Leo Tolstoy, and the theology of James Luther Adams.
I could go on. I won't belabor it.
Are you going to buy a Kindle?
Robert
posted by Mr.Durick at 8:23 pm (EST) on Jun 12, 2008
Since you have such fine a local resource you probably don't listen to much radio online, but if you do, among the ones I'd recommend is RadioStephansdom http://www.radiostephansdom.at/ Click on "live" for the links to streaming audio. For the opera programs, click on "Programm" and then the link for "Opernprogramm." As with the UK, though, the timing is awkward (8pm in Vienna seems to be 6am for you).
As far as time zones, since you all have daylight savings and we do not, at the moment you are 2 hours ahead, at least this is according to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ a resource I seem to be using all the time (heh) to track friends around the world.
Thanks again!
posted by Nycticebus at 8:26 pm (EST) on Mar 17, 2008
posted by avaland at 2:21 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2008
posted by abbottthomas at 7:01 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2008