tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post8816175709398647770..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: To Kihnu islandDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-77022867355802235432016-08-14T17:28:22.297+01:002016-08-14T17:28:22.297+01:00Agree 100% on bookstore browsing. It's one of ...Agree 100% on bookstore browsing. It's one of life's great pleasures. Another was browsing in record/CD bins, so hard to get a chance anymore. Grateful, when in NYC for Academy records. I almost always find something interesting that I wasn't looking for!Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-64968197409611113852016-08-09T10:05:54.908+01:002016-08-09T10:05:54.908+01:00Yes - even though it's now owned by the man wh...Yes - even though it's now owned by the man who owns Waterstone's, it's kept its identity. Reminds me that the internet is no substitute for browsing - if you browse by country, you come across some remarkable authors serendipitously (my Walser and Malaparte crazes came from there).Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-58841414029164473682016-08-08T03:16:19.249+01:002016-08-08T03:16:19.249+01:00Anneli recommended Oksanen's Purge. It's b...Anneli recommended Oksanen's Purge. It's been a while since I've read it, so I can't speak to it specifically, but I was very taken with it. (Love Daunt books!)Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-52413648775863254022016-08-07T12:18:11.403+01:002016-08-07T12:18:11.403+01:00Wonderful news indeed. I was talking to a Danish f...Wonderful news indeed. I was talking to a Danish friend of Estonian origins about the paucity of Estonian literature in translation and she recommended Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen's Purge, which is the only one of its kind I've seen in our travel bookshop Daunt Books. I'll get that, but this sounds like a classic. Three cheers for Merike! Terviseks!Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-43521063278819374542016-08-06T18:34:52.635+01:002016-08-06T18:34:52.635+01:00Wonder after wonder here, just lovely! You are rem...Wonder after wonder here, just lovely! You are reminding me of some exciting (to me, anyway) Estonian literature news. Don't know if you have heard of the Estonian writer, Jaan Kross? I learned of him recently from Lembit Beecher, who recommended The Czar's Madman to me, which I am reading now. But the exciting thing is that Lembit's mother, Merike, who is Estonian, though she came to the US as a small child, turns out to have been working on translation of Jaan Kross's masterwork, "Between Three Plagues," and the first volume, The Ropewalkers, has just come out. There's some information <a href="http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/book-review/the-ropewalker-between-three-plagues-volume-i-by-jaan-kross-eric-dickens" rel="nofollow">here</a>, if of interest.Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-12175566992620472082016-08-05T12:04:00.940+01:002016-08-05T12:04:00.940+01:00I count myself to have got one beautiful day out o...I count myself to have got one beautiful day out of four when I went to Orkney. Still want to go back and explore Hoy. Not sure about Edinburgh yet - could do around the Yannick Nezet-Seguin concerts if I get an interview. Meanwhile, Norway and Turkey (again - at an even more perilous time now) beckon.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-11110996363536763832016-08-05T11:38:42.459+01:002016-08-05T11:38:42.459+01:00Meanwhile, I was being rained on and blown about i...Meanwhile, I was being rained on and blown about in Orkney. No, I'm not jealous, not really.<br />Are you coming to Edinburgh?Catrionanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-76540674333239338642016-08-04T14:49:54.093+01:002016-08-04T14:49:54.093+01:00And now, of course, you two live on a very lovely ...And now, of course, you two live on a very lovely island, the existence of which I knew nothing about until I saw it covered on your blogs... You are heading to perhaps the most beautiful big island of them all soon, I believe - God's own country (said with strong Irish accent).Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-8152536725739631362016-08-04T14:47:18.984+01:002016-08-04T14:47:18.984+01:00You do take us to some wonderful and exotic places...You do take us to some wonderful and exotic places - and for that I, for one, am grateful. Willymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652532356102638621noreply@blogger.com