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Prime Suspect, Blue Lightning

This is one of those multiple point-of-view novels, and the murder victim keeps slipping in and out of view. Damn! Who could the murderer be? The cook… Read more “Prime Suspect, Blue Lightning”

February 10, 2022 by anthropologist

The Opinion of a Character on Mail-Order Brides

Whoa whoa whoa whoa A character in an Ann Cleeves novel considers the possibility of MAIL-ORDER BRIDES. Self was dreading seeing the name of her native country… Read more “The Opinion of a Character on Mail-Order Brides”

February 10, 2022 by anthropologist

The Fatalism (Spoilers If You’ve Never Read BLUE LIGHTNING)

The past few days, self has been completely intent on her reading. She read through Anne Cleeves’ Cold Earth, finishing the back half in one afternoon. Then… Read more “The Fatalism (Spoilers If You’ve Never Read BLUE LIGHTNING)”

February 9, 2022February 12, 2022 by anthropologist

First Monday of February, 2022: COLD EARTH, p. 247

Can self say just how much she is enjoying Ann Cleeves? She never read the woman before, never watched the TV show either, and here she is… Read more “First Monday of February, 2022: COLD EARTH, p. 247”

February 7, 2022February 10, 2022 by anthropologist

Contempt

And, doesn’t this just take the cake? The lone miner who doesn’t take to drink after the mine closes, but who continues to work industriously at any… Read more “Contempt”

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 by anthropologist

LEEK, p. 196

SPOILER ALERT but since it seems quite a lot of you have read Shuggie Bain then just a re-cap of the one precious call Leek makes to… Read more “LEEK, p. 196”

April 22, 2021April 24, 2021 by anthropologist

Wullie Campbell, What a Prince

Wullie Campbell (Agnes’s dad) returns from the war to find a strange baby in his house, and a high-end pram. Ah! “the baby’s pink arms reached out… Read more “Wullie Campbell, What a Prince”

April 21, 2021April 25, 2021 by anthropologist

Beginning IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS, by Tim O’Brien

The recommendation is six years old, from a print-out she took home with her during her 2012 residency in Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers. We six writers… Read more “Beginning IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS, by Tim O’Brien”

June 19, 2018June 20, 2018 by anthropologist

Four Weeks In Hawthornden, Scotland, June 2012

The benefactress Drue Heinz passed away recently, and there was outpouring of sadness from all Hawthornden alums. The impact she had on writers around the world was… Read more “Four Weeks In Hawthornden, Scotland, June 2012”

April 22, 2018April 26, 2018 by anthropologist

#amwriting: A Story Begun in Hawthornden

Just to show you how mind-numbingly slow her mind is, there are stories she’s begun five, even 10 years ago, whose words sit in her MacBook, languishing.… Read more “#amwriting: A Story Begun in Hawthornden”

July 24, 2017 by anthropologist

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