Soothing mysteries? ur kinda doin it wrong.
Not to me. That return to order when the mystery is solved is the component of the mystery I value the most, probably because it's soothing. I'm fine with cozies.
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
-t - Aug 19, 2010 10:45:26 am PDT #12032 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Kate P. - Aug 19, 2010 11:11:07 am PDT #12033 of 28342
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Also words that sound right coming out of Africans seem strange when a white guy puts in on the page.
That was my biggest problem with the Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books. I enjoyed the first one but found that eventually they mostly irritated me. All the dialogue seemed like people were speaking in a language they weren't entirely fluent in, which seemed like a peculiar [edit: and patronizing] way to write those characters.
erikaj - Aug 19, 2010 11:43:54 am PDT #12034 of 28342
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, I guess it works sometimes, -t. I mean, I used to read Miss Marple a lot. I guess I think you can take it too far and end up with that endless "The Cat Who Couldn't Shoot Straight" series. I like cats and mysteries, but somehow I've not found them two great tastes that taste great together.Even Rita Mae Brown never really made that happen and I was such a fan in high school I got the "If there's anything you'd like to talk about," pause more than once. Now, I think my parents should get partial credit. Yeah, Kate, somehow I found that really embarrassing. It's hard to explain because obviously I'm the palest white devil to come down the pike, aside from those few drips of NA blood, and I've never really been to Africa so it's not like I can say "But it's not Authentic."
Laga - Aug 19, 2010 1:00:57 pm PDT #12035 of 28342
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
If Follow my Leader is about the kid blinded by fireworks I totally read (and re-read) that book when I was a kid. I remember thinking it would be worth being blind to have such a great dog. ...I don't think that way anymore.
Volans - Aug 19, 2010 3:27:31 pm PDT #12036 of 28342
move out and draw fire
My step-sister, who has a PhD in English, just said that The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first mystery she's ever read. How is that possible?
Amy - Aug 19, 2010 3:35:04 pm PDT #12037 of 28342
Because books.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first mystery she's ever read
No Christie?! No Conan Doyle?! No P.D. James, for goodness sake?!
Jessica - Aug 19, 2010 3:39:17 pm PDT #12038 of 28342
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The only mysteries I've read are the ones I picked up at my grandmother's house after running out of other books (since she uses the spare bedroom mainly to store books when she's done reading them). I doubt I could tell you any of their names.
-t - Aug 19, 2010 3:42:27 pm PDT #12039 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Does Oedipus Rex count? I would think so.
Volans - Aug 19, 2010 4:46:19 pm PDT #12040 of 28342
move out and draw fire
No Christie?! No Conan Doyle?! No P.D. James, for goodness sake?!
Not even Nancy Drew.
Amy - Aug 19, 2010 4:47:21 pm PDT #12041 of 28342
Because books.
That baffles me, Raq. I mean, a PhD in ENGLISH! Wow.
I love mysteries.