Posted on 12/08/2012 12:50:55 PM PST by NYer
What no Trayler?
I also tried the Master of Hestviken, much harder to get through. Keeping all the names and relationships srtaight required a more sophisticated technology than Index cards with tiny letters and arows :o/
The scene where Olav kills Teit the Icelander with his axe roiled through my imaginaton for a long time, though.
Yikes.
My own legal name is a nickname for a more formal name. My Mom thought the formal name was too long and they would call me the nickname anyway, so why bother naming me the formal name. The nickname would do. Thanks mom, not.
A good friend in high school was saddled with, as the legal name on his birth certificate, "Timmy".
Needless to say, he fixed it when he was old enough.
You know better than that. Forgotten, yes, like so many other Nobel Prize in lit winners. It's an old complaint about who still remembered should have gotten them, and who now forgotten actually got them. But it's like that society woman who said I think to William F. Buckley, (was it Pauline Kael?), that she didn't understand why Nixon was elected since no one she knew had voted for him. Our personal choices remain our personal choices. And the recent nominees such as the communists Dario Fo and Elfriede Jelinek will most certainly be soon forgotten.
Prob’ly all print books will be banned before The End: reading will be forbidden: too individualistic, too retrograde, bad gender themes, whiffs of alcohol, madness and Christ.
You have no doubt found the probable reason.
Still a loving parent has an obligation to the child to not intentionally place hinderences in their life or to put the poor child into ackward positions and a lifetime of embarrasment. Then again its also easy to see a lot of these parents are not so loving of their children as can be witnessed most any day at any Walmart.
Don’t forget that feminine favorite - Placenta.
The man I was with for a number of years, before he passed in September of this year, his first name, David, means “beloved”.
Ahhhhh and the dear Moon Unit.
But we all knew that Frank just ate too much yellow snow.
Somehow I doubt they named anyone Madison Madison.
I had the misfortune this morning to observe a pair of, I guess, 80 year olds deciding on a Nook device inside a B&N store, while at the same time I am awaiting the arrival of about, I think, 5 more books from a couple of Internet bookstores to add to the pile by my bed. And now this Norwegian writer to check out?
ABCDE That one will be hard to spell wrong.
Strange names? How about Meta World Peace?
There is a Louise in the Bible???
The Book of Louise?
Louise on the Mount?
Louise walking on water?
The Apostle Louise?
??? I said there was a familial connection, but after a certain number of generations, there is a mix of family names. Do you have the same last name as your maternal great-grandmother? Or your 8x great grandfather? Yet, don’t you still have a familial connection to them? Or are you just trying to be obtuse?
I read that.
St. Louis
Not biblical
Her first name is Janet
a form of Janice or Jean
Saints — got it?
“In 2011 there were more than twice as many Nevaehs (Heaven spelled backwards) born as there were Marys.”
Come on. But then I read the article...
“Incredibly, out of 1.7 million girls’ names recorded by the SSA in 2011, I was able to predict to within 87 how many would be named Mary. By simply taking the number born in 2010 and subtracting the 5-year average decline, I predicted 2,584 would be born; the actual number was 2,671 (an error of 3.3 percent).”
I think the Nationals have two Tylers, three Ryans, a Jordan, a Drew, a Jayson, an Ian and a Bryce.
Freegards
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