{"id":1725,"date":"2015-03-05T07:24:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T13:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2015-05-31T07:28:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T13:28:52","slug":"arctic-chill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Chill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Arnaldur Indridason, 2005, Audiobook narrated by George Guidall, 2011, Recorded Books, LLC<\/p>\n<p>This is a run of the mill detective story whose only redeeming value was that it took place in Iceland.\u00c2\u00a0 The mood and the background gave me a little insight into the culture and living conditions in Iceland.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a typical murder mystery, the only twist being that the murder was of a young immigrant boy.\u00c2\u00a0 It does provide a bit of background about how the immigrant population fares vis-a-vis the native Icelandic population and the tugs and pulls of assimilation versus isolation.\u00c2\u00a0 The plot itself is pedantic and the characters are a bit hard to distinguish because of the similarity and unfamiliarity of their names (especially in audiobook format).<\/p>\n<p>The reading by George Guidall was very good as usual, but the material was lacking.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I will be reading additional volumes in this series.<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"wp_delimgbtn\" title=\"2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-0.gif\" alt=\"2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Arnaldur Indridason, 2005, Audiobook narrated by George Guidall, 2011, Recorded Books, LLC This is a run of the mill detective story whose only redeeming value was that it took place in Iceland.\u00c2\u00a0 The mood and the background gave me <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1725\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,36],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}