Comments | oloriel: What's in a name...

oloriel

What's in a name...

Jan 24, 2007 20:30

I bought a murder mysteries book yesterday. An Icelandic murder mystery.

Murder mysteries are so not my genre. My interest in crime stories never really extended further than Enyd Blyton's Famous Five and Secret Seven or Astrid Lindgren's Kalle Blomquist, and that really hasn't changed. Meaning: Whodunnits on TV bore me, and murder mystery stories ( Read more... )

return of the student geek, books, the mad linguist strikes again, random

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oloriel January 24 2007, 23:00:00 UTC

*blinks* What for?

meril January 24 2007, 21:00:41 UTC

HAHAHA I blogged about his novels a couple of weeks ago! Stupid me read the second in the series, though. I just checked out the first from the library. (I actually found out about them because the seconnd book was reviewed in The Economist about six weeks back.)

meril January 24 2007, 21:04:59 UTC

...and, of course, you probably read my blog about it...oops?

oloriel January 24 2007, 22:08:59 UTC

*grins* Yes, I admit that I stumbled across the name there and couldn't resist the temptation of checking that out myself...

eruannath January 24 2007, 21:42:08 UTC

The name of the author is Arnaldur Indriðason.
Arnaldur. Indriðason.

That is absolutely amazing.