Random books from Thrin's library

About me Reading Now - July 2008
The Snake in Sydney by Michael Larsen (didn't finish)
The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg by Sibusiso Nyembezi
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (John Banville)
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Watching the English by Kate Fox
The Cleft by Doris Lessing (skimmed)
The Way Some People Die by Ross Macdonald

Other books read in 2008
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Final Murder by Anne Holt
A Stain on the Silence by Andrew Taylor (didn't finish)
Past Reason Hated by Peter Robinson
I Shall Bear Witness by Victor Klemperer
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Strip Jack by Ian Rankin
Shakespeare's Songbook by Ross W. Duffin
The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen (didn't finish)
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black (John Banville)
Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Foe by J.M. Coetzee
Black Seconds by Karin Fossum
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer (didn't finish)
From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
A Baker's Dozen by Dorothy Hewett
The Fire Engine that Disappeared by Maj Sjowal and Per Wahloo
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
Voices by Arnaldur Indridason
The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier
Diary of a Bad Year by J.M.Coetzee,
Purity of Blood by Arturo Perez-Reverte, (didn't finish)
Race Across Alaska: First Woman to win the Iditarod tells her story by Libby Riddles and Tim Jones,

- November & December 2007
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell
I, Tina by Tina Turner with Kurt Loder,
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
Frozen Tracks by Ake Edwardson
The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
My Mother's Lovers by Christopher Hope
Collected Stories by Ruth Rendell

About my library Only books that I have read, am reading or have attempted to read have been catalogued; there are very few children's books. Many 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 find new titles and authors through similar libraries, connections, etc.

LocationBlue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia

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Member sinceMay 18, 2007

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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 rdurick 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

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