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”
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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”
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)”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
#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”
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