COMMENTS:
1. about moving this blog
Did you get this issue resolved? Can't the canton rep script an icon on their blog webpage coded to your blog? Then, these would be linked. - Leslie (unknown person at unknown place, but i appreciate the idea)
2. about first review of eloquent tattoo
I especially like this part -- Audrey Lavin’s new literary mystery. l.l., atlanta
Murder. Literature. Tattoo. Lavin is back! c.l., atlanta
BOOKS:
rhys bowen can do no wrong, but i do like her royal spyness novels better than the molly murphy series. personal prejudices then set aside, hush now, don't you cry, a molly murphy mystery, is an interesting take on the mad-woman-in-the-attic novels that readers have enjoyed for generations. the term itself is based in the 1847 jane eyre where rochester's wife is kept locked in the attic. in literature the person, always female, locked in the attic is usually portrayed as either a devil or an angel. in bowen's novel it is a child locked away, a child who some consider a devil and who some consider an angel.
the attic with child is located in an estate in newport, rhode island, where molly murphy and daniel sullivan are supposedly taking their honeymoon. molly is supposed to give up sleuthing now that she’s married to captain daniel sullivan, nypd, but the murder of an alderman in newport, rhode island, puts her on the trail of a killer. also, daniel conveniently has the flu or something like it and is out of commission during the entire novel, so it is definitely a molly murphy story.
the novel is published by minotaur books and is 306 pages.
ELOQUENT CORPSE:
part of an on-line review by and posted on site of angie mangino:
Readers meet Mary Beth Goldberg, both English professor and detective, at lunch with Austin Westlake, her friend. She leaves him to go to her 1:30 class, with plans made for him to order a pizza and her to bring the wine to meet at 6 pm to talk privately about a matter that worried Austin. When she arrives that night, Austin looks asleep at his desk “with sleeves pushed up in an affected casualness that allowed Mary Beth to see a tattoo she hadn’t noticed before.” As she walked closer, the reality that “Austin wasn’t going to wake up – ever” hit her.
Readers will relate to Mary Beth, drawn into her conflicts, of her profession and of her personal relationships, trumped by her involvement in searching for the murderer of her friend.
This reviewer found this an interesting mystery to follow that led to resolutions of both the murder and her personal relationships. Without lapsing into a spoiler of this mystery, suffice to say this reviewer was very satisfied with the conclusion to the murder mystery
WRITING HINTS:
my w.i.p. (work in progress) right now is a paper with a co-author in russia, larissa sokolova. she wanted to know about the influence of russian writers on my work. i'll talk more about this later, but will repeat what i have said in this blog before. chekov's advice is that after you have written your essay, go back over it and cut out adverbs and adjectives. i add, remember that the adverb is the enemy of the noun. your writing will be stronger (not 'much' stronger, not --horrors- 'very much' stronger ), but plain stronger if you eliminate those extra words.
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