So I'm reading one of my Bookbub deals by an author called Lillian Stewart Carl - The Secret Portrait. For the most part I like it. It's a mystery with a female protagonist who has transplanted herself from Texas to Scotland. Mostly the dialect in the dialogue is at least as skillful as I would be able to manage, or better. The one jarring note is the phrase "might could". It seems as though everyone in the book who was born in Scotland says "might could" while characters from England and Texas do not. I'd have thought that the Texan would use it, but no one else.
Wesley: All right. I'm going to let you all in on something you may have trouble comprehending. I assure you however-- Gunn: Vampires are real. Wesley: I was telling!
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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."
WindSparrow - Mar 07, 2014 3:15:41 am PST #22117 of 28348
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
megan walker - Mar 07, 2014 9:50:45 am PST #22118 of 28348
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Have any of your read Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore?
It was fun, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. It had a great opening and finished strong, but I got a little bored by the quest at a certain point.
Kat - Mar 07, 2014 11:05:18 am PST #22119 of 28348
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
megan, I am totally the opposite. I liked the quest and was bored with the bits about TechLove and coding. I do love that Robin Sloan, on his author's blurb, says that he splits his time between San Francisco and the Internet.
megan walker - Mar 07, 2014 11:36:21 am PST #22120 of 28348
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That's sort of what I meant in that I hated pretty much anything having to do with Google and just didn't like that it went in that direction.
Consuela - Mar 07, 2014 12:52:56 pm PST #22121 of 28348
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I got about 25% of the way into Mr. Penumbra and just put it down. It was a bit too much cool-dude-brogrammer and Manic Pixie Tech Girl for me. Maybe things got better?
I did like the mystery itself, though. If I find an electronic copy at the library I might skim it, but I was listening to it on audiobook, and disliking the narrator of an audiobook is a death knell.
Polter-Cow - Mar 07, 2014 2:59:15 pm PST #22122 of 28348
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yep, that's why I quit The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Also because I had no idea what the fuck was going on.
Gris - Mar 07, 2014 5:03:08 pm PST #22123 of 28348
Hey. New board.
Really? I loved me some Yiddish Policemen's Union.
sj - Mar 07, 2014 5:04:53 pm PST #22124 of 28348
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Really? I loved me some Yiddish Policemen's Union.
Me too.
-t - Mar 07, 2014 5:06:03 pm PST #22125 of 28348
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Probably my favorite Chabon. I didn't listen to the audiobook, though.
Dana - Mar 08, 2014 5:05:15 am PST #22126 of 28348
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I couldn't get into it either.