Jayne ,'The Message'
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."
I am here for it - [link]
Longtime friends Hillary Clinton and author Louise Penny are writing an international political thriller, "State of Terror," out in October. The plot:
A novice Secretary of State joins the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray, and the Secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy.
I did not know they were friends. Cool. While I'm not much for political thrillers (politics has had enough tension for me over the past few years), I do like Louise Penny's writing.
I am just tickled when I see two women I respect collaborating and have to support that!
I would LOVE to hear their co-writing sessions.
OMG, that's amazing. I have seen shout-outs to the family in Penny's book notes, and wondered how close they were.
I hadn't seen it mentioned on the board, but Laurence Ferlenghetti has died.
eee! new T. Kingfisher - Paladin's Strength!
YOU JUST MADE MY NIGHT!
That’s what I’m going to read next! I’m excited
Today I finished reading Ngaio Marsh’s complete oeuvre. I feel like I should do something with the knowledge and opinions I have picked up other than thinking “Nice call back to A Man Lies Dead” when a glove button is found in the paddock in Last Ditch. I can advise that if anyone else wants to do it, either slot Money in the Morgue (which was finished by someone else from Marsh’s notes and a few chapters, per the afterword) after Died in the Wool or just skip it. I read it last and I was often thinking “Rory would never!” and maybe I wouldn’t after only 13 books instead of 32. I am now intensely curious about whether any of the unfinished ms made it into the final book unchanged.
So if anyone knows of a graduate program in Murder Mysteries I could apply to with my no-academic-background-in-literature-of-any-kind, let me know.
But now, T Kingfisher awaits!
You can believe I ordered that about five seconds after seeing it ... I'm in the middle of another book right now, but will start the Kingfisher right after.