Member: Thrin

Hi Thrin,

Of course you may call me Lois. I enjoyed Hypothermia very much. Have you had a chance to see the Icelandic movie of his first novel? I notice above that you didn't finish the Sigurdardottir, how far did you get? It ended up having quite a bit of Icelandic history it. I did a review of her second novel here: http://www.belletrista.com/2009/issue2/r... (under a pseudonym, although the bio is true)

I've moved on to reading a new author (to me) - Ake Edwardson. I picked up the 3rd book at a library sale and read that recently. It's nicely complex and slow-builds suspense around the two cases. The DCI is Erik Winter (ha! it's a bit jarring to always be reading the word "Winter" in sentences in a Swedish mystery!) but he didn't stand out in this novel as one might expect for a lead character. The book seemed to track four detectives mostly and I had a bit of difficulty figuring out who was who for a while as they sometimes refer to them by last name and at other times first name. Still, it didn't detract from my enjoyment and I've bought the other three available in English.

Are you reading the newer Rankin? The post-Rebus retirement stuff? Any good? I have a couple of Fred Vargas novels but it may be quite a while before I get to them as I mix police procedurals between my other reading.

Best, Lois

posted by avaland at 7:00 am (EST) on Nov 19, 2009

Hi Thrin, Seems we are reading the same Icelandic mysteries. I just got word from the Book Depository that Indridason's Hypothermia is shipping:-) Best, Lois

posted by avaland at 7:55 am (EST) on Sep 23, 2009

Thanks for the very kind note on my profile page! It is nice to know that I was not the only person who disliked People of the Book. Have a great day!

posted by Cait86 at 6:21 pm (EST) on May 20, 2009

Hi Thrin,

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

Hi Thrin,
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

hi thrin, just to let u know that i've started to read the book u nudged off my pile, A Separate Development by Christopher Hope, and enjoying his writing very much...have been laughing off my seat since i started it last night. but what's interesting about it is that he makes us laugh as much as he makes us reflect. got to check out his other books...thanks for the encouragement!

posted by deebee1 at 4:59 am (EST) on Nov 22, 2008

Good. I'm going to bed! If you want to see long titles, we recently cataloged the libraries of Samuel Johnson and Charles Lamb on Library Thing. You'll see the complete titles in the Summary because most wouldn't fit in the Title section:

http://www.librarything.com/profile/Samu...
http://www.librarything.com/profile/Char...

posted by moibibliomaniac at 11:16 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2008

Thrin,

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

Hello, and thanks for the link to your lovely station, http://www.2mbs.com/ It's nice to know there's a weekly opera in a reasonable time zone for me.

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

Hi, Saw your note on Indridason's mysteries on the Crime/Mystery group. I just watched "Jar City" on television (pay-per-view) last night and thought it was excellent, kept to the book well. Here's a link to the IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805576/ Hope it is available to you in your area, Best, Lois

posted by avaland at 2:21 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2008

There's a coincidence. My wife and I spent the first year of our married life (1971) in a top floor flat in Elm Park Mansions - just a bit westwards down the Fulham Road. we enjoyed our time in the area too. Have you come across Henry Root and the Root Letters? He wrote his joke letters from a flat in the same block.

posted by abbottthomas at 7:01 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2008