Corgies and also Death - The Bookpost

[failte_aoife]

As a pre-emptive defence, I would like to point out that Amazon offered three months Kindle Unlimited membership for cheap and I obviously took it and then immediately made some very questionable decisions.

Mildred Abbott: Cruel Candy - A Cozy Corgi Mystery

Comments

[thots_tochter]

Rein aus Neugier: Was ist das Problem mit "Lies Sleeping" für dich?

Ich frage nur, weil ich ja auch ein riesiger Fan von Rivers of London bin, aber irgendwie kann ich mich auch gerade nur schwer überwinden "Lies Sleeping" endlich anzufangen (Was mich natürlich nicht gehindert hat "The October Man" schon mal vorzubestellen).

[failte_aoife]

Ich glaube ein bisschen wars dass alles immer etwas dubios war. In einem normalen Krimi hat man am Anfang die Leiche und die Frage ist 'Wer wars?'. In Fantasy müssen sie z.B. ein Artifakt beschaffen und man fragt sich wie sie das anstellen. Und in den bisherigen RoL-Büchern war auch schon relativ früh klar welches Problem sie jetzt lösen müssen. Diesmal wars aber eher 'Wir haben was gefunden und das hat wahrscheinlich mit dem Faceless Man zu tun aber wir wissen nicht wie oder was er vorhat' und da fehlte mir ein bisschen der Fokus. Als er dann da war (was fast bis Seite 300 gebraucht hat) war ich dann wieder gebannt und hab die restlichen 100 Seiten am Buch geklebt)

[baka_yu]

JFC, the Titanic one sounds horrifying. And the last one... NO. Just. No.

And I'm waiting for the day where you'll snap and start writing your own books. You definitely read enough on how not to do it.

[failte_aoife]

Right now I'm staying with fanfiction...which I write at the speed of one oneshot every 6 months or so...

[baka_yu]

I mean, that's still faster than some authors with published books and all. (Looking at you, big examples G.R.R. Martin and Scott Lynch.)

[hamsterwoman]

I love reading your bad book reviews (though I do feel a bit guilty that you've actually had to READ them to write the reviews for us to enjoy XP)

The murder-on-the-Titanic especially seems like such a wasted opportunity of a cool premise!

Isn’t it *~*hilarious*~*?

such clever much funny wow

On the other hand, I'm actually very fond of the Father Brown stories (despite being a probably evil? atheist.

I blasted through Lies Sleeping in probably 48 hours or less? It was my favorite since Broken Homes, and I hope you end up enjoying it a lot too!

[failte_aoife]

Well, I at least try to limit myself to the so-bad-it's-hilarious books and avoid those that just mage me rage XD

The murder-on-the-Titanic especially seems like such a wasted opportunity of a cool premise!

Exactly. I had some hopes because I had read the author before. He's written some tie-ins to CSI, Bones and some other show and yes, in my misspent teenage years I read those...and they were fun and I remember really liking his sense of humour so this book was really a case of 'How did that happen?'

I wonder if my inability to get into the Father Brown stories can be blamed on my love on the German movie adaptations. There are three from the 50s very loosely based on the stories, more comedies than anything else and they limited the Christian message to something along the lines of 'be always nice to your neighbours and don't lie'. And I loved those a lot and re-watched them over and over again...so the actual Father Brown is a bit of a culture shock, even though I do like the mystery parts.

[ikel89]

I actually am now wondering if my familiarity with Father Brown books via Soviet translations was a perfect introduction -- perhaps all the raging Catholicism was edited out of it by prudent Soviet censors and saved me disappointment?:DD Otoh, that reading streak for all things murder mysteries took place in my middle school when I definitely had a less discerning taste :'D

[failte_aoife]

Now I have to think of all the Famous Five books I read in my childhood and how they magically all paid in German Mark there. Presumably because the translators thought that small children brains could not cope with the existence of different countries that paid with other money