tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post567018351296042042..comments2024-03-29T04:46:01.420-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: HesteyriOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-22643471868628401802016-08-19T20:36:53.767-04:002016-08-19T20:36:53.767-04:00Hello Yrsa, if i may call you that...or write that...Hello Yrsa, if i may call you that...or write that is. I came across this article about you going to Hestyri and the book you were writing. I was very curious and wanted to ask the name of the book as I would love to read it. I am from the USA, Georgia to be exact. Actually I have never traveled further out of Georgia than it's surrounding States. When I read a book no matter the genre that is my travels!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11700842178716856517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-21313866247914084412010-07-07T18:17:55.394-04:002010-07-07T18:17:55.394-04:00Hello all,
I am sorry for being so late in replyi...Hello all,<br /><br />I am sorry for being so late in replying to the comments, I know I always am but this time I had an excuse as I had no connection.<br /><br />Leighton - thanks for the heads up. I did as you suggested!<br /><br />Beth - I completely agree regarding "instant gratification" I wonder how that will develop - regarding Iceland, I really think we are no any better in our treatment of the environment than the US or other western countries, we are just luckier when it comes to our energy resources and our numbers, i.e. we are too few to really make a dent. Worldwide everyone is getting better at this however, us too.<br /><br />Lenny - I sometimes scribble but less and less. One of the things that I will never replace the pen with a computer for and that is the scribbling I do before falling asleep or in the middle of the night into whatever happens to be on my nightstand. I get a lot of my ideas when the burdens of cumbersome reality slip away.<br /><br />Anne - thank you so much for your kind words. I hope you like the rest of the Thora books that have yet to come out, there are three still to be published in English, one is out next week (Ashes to Dust). The Hesteyri book is a stand alone, a ghost story and for it I am using disposable characters - I wanted to keep Thóra for next year's book and other years to come.Yrsa Sigurdardottirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05889410114439001207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-48942740446365086892010-07-05T07:44:05.777-04:002010-07-05T07:44:05.777-04:00Hello Yrsa,
I am forever your devoted fan. I am g...Hello Yrsa,<br /><br />I am forever your devoted fan. I am going to read every book, every paper you write. I was so excited to read that you are writing your new book and Hesteryi figures in. So stark, so chilling beautiful, so cold. It's going to be a great book. It's a Thora book, I hope, I hope!!!!anna kleinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07114594317072541402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-72453483957251785182010-07-01T20:13:56.505-04:002010-07-01T20:13:56.505-04:00Yrsa,
1] I believe people can look back at almost...Yrsa,<br /><br />1] I believe people can look back at almost any era and think, "What were they thinking?" It's not as if rationality is humanity's long suit.<br /><br />2] I share your concern about the consumer-induced deterioration of the environment. And the computer-induced deterioration of penmanship. <br /><br /> Am I the only one here who prints out his work at the end of each day, scribbles notes and corrections on it, then the next morning can't decipher what the hell those Martian markings say?<br /><br />--Lenny<br /><br />PS. Hesteryi looks like a place one could happily stay for a while without writing anything.Lenny Kleinfeldhttp://www.lennykleinfeld.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-76705832434968603892010-06-30T22:02:42.302-04:002010-06-30T22:02:42.302-04:00It seems we are a world, at least in the west, tha...It seems we are a world, at least in the west, that ignores the fact that we will be history one day. Impatientience seems to be a common character flaw. We want everything now; we don't want to wait until someone figures out the "what if".<br /><br />BP clearly didn't employ anyone willing to ask the questions. What if something breaks so far below the surface? What if oil spills for weeks/months/years? What if an ecosystem is threatened with extinction?<br /><br />What if someone had asked the questions and demanded reasonable answers, plans before the drilling began? What if alternative energy was taken seriously?<br /><br />Iceland has gone so much further than the United States. Sometimes I think we are hampered by our size. It is too easy for a mistake in one place to be buried while a company moves on to try the same thing somewhere else.<br /><br />I keep thinking of T.S. Eliot: "this is the way the world ends....not with a bang but a whimper." We didn't hear the bang under the ocean but we are hearing the whimper of the dying birds along the Gulf coast.bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17405199782450351160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-68459883291339934402010-06-30T19:55:54.386-04:002010-06-30T19:55:54.386-04:00Yrsa,
Take and post pictures - please.Yrsa,<br /><br />Take and post pictures - please.Leighton Gagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09788807904434180290noreply@blogger.com