'Conviction (1)'
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."
That was just a (bad attempt at a) joke on my part.
Well, it did make me flash on a funny but HUGELY deliberately offensive line from Blazing Saddles (the one that ends "...but we don't want the Irish!"), so I wasn't sure if that was an actual title or not. Given some of the more offensive Hardy Boy stuff I've heard about, it wouldn't entirely surprise me.
I thought it was funny, Tep, and really that book held together much better than the Case of the Kriminal Kraut...cute spelling was the least of that one's problems.
I never read much Nancy Drew, but the thing that has always struck me as odd about Christie and Tey and Marsh mysteries is how taken for granted the idea that criminality was inborn is - I can remember at least a couple of Christie's where the culprit was the child of a murderer, for example, and that whole business about physiognomy in Daughter of Time, as much as I like the book, is impossible to swallow now.
I (also Irish) laughed at the Missing Mick.
I'm reading Kavalier and Clay on the bus but I get nauseated if I try to read while we're moving so I've got 20 little cliffhangers per day as I wait for the bus to stop rocking to read another line, paragraph or page before we start moving again.
I'll have to reread my copy of Daughter of Time now. It's been so long since I read it that I don't remember that detail.
Along the lines of a modern-day detective solving an historical mystery he stumbles across while in the hospital, I always liked Colin Dexter's The Wench Is Dead, one of his Inspector Morse books. The TV adaptation of it was all right, but I prefered the book, myself.
You don't remember that Kathy? Grant gets a series of portraits of the major player in the case and makes some judgements more or less based on those.
Oh, yeah, now that you mention it. I only read it the one time, and it's been a long while since I did. I have read the Dexter book since then, and I remember that one more.
Once I get the HP rereading finished, I think I'll get through the rest of my recent purchases (Ragtime and Fatherland, to be specific) before heading over to the library and seeing what else grabs my attention. I got out of the reading habit since March while I've been working on my sister's wedding present, and probably should get my To-Be-Read pile reduced a bit before starting on a cross-stitch piece for myself (the To-Be-Stitched box has been around for at least 15 years since I quit working at Michael's--it's not going anywhere!).
I can't remember if I've read The Wench is Dead or not. No matter, I'll put it on my library list. I know I've read at least a few Morses and liked them.
Weird coincidence -- one of the original Nancy Drew movies from it looks like the '40s is just starting on TCM.
Question for people who've read Gaiman's Stardust: I'm thinking about buying the new illustrated edition as a present for someone. There aren't any Amazon reviews of that edition yet, but several of the reviews for the original edition mention a sex scene. How explicit is it, and if anyone has the illustrated edition, do the pictures get at all graphic? (The person I'm buying it for is rather prudish. Even something like bare breasts in an illustration would make me think twice about this. I glanced through it when I saw it in a bookstore, but just saw a few pictures and thought, "Oooh, pretty," without looking too closely.)