Tag: mystery
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Knowledge Density
Grimes, Martha. The Knowledge. Grove Press, 2018. [An Installment of the “Read Me” Project.] What made me stop reading mysteries like they were candy? Aside from the advent of Netflix – which makes it possible to watch mysteries on TV like they’re candy instead of reading them, and crochet things for the next church bazaar […]
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The Darkest Evening of the Year
Tonight, on this longest (“darkest”) evening of the year, my thoughts turn once again to … Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Since I heard one of my professors tell this story, I have always experienced a twinge of embarrassed hesitation to admit this. Here’s the story: A friend of mine took a class […]
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So, Just Your Ordinary Gothic Murder Romance SciFi/Time Travel Mystery Novel, eh?
Turton, Stuart. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Sourcebooks Landmark, 2018. [An Installment of the “Read Me” Project.] This is one of those books that wind up on the stack because someone else in the house was reading it and enjoying it so much that I got curious and a little envious and said “Hey, […]
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Unfinished Reading
But it is the same book. And naturally these incidents bring up again questions of what people see when they read a book, and why one person sees one pattern and nothing at all of another pattern, and how odd it is to have, as author, such a clear picture of a book, that is […]
Matters of Interpretation 