This is not my favorite Jackson Brodie book, but Kate Atkinson’s When Will There Be Good News? was a wonderful read – especially for the character Reggie. Despite the murders, train wrecks, kidnappings, etc., it is a surprisingly positive book, with lonely characters finding ways to make families, wild goose chases resolving not in surrender but in more wild goose chases, and characters developing and growing in satisfactory ways. Atkinson writes beautifully. She has a witty style and focuses on developing characters that she clearly […]
Mmmmmm. Butter chicken.
My rating for this is probably a 3 for the first 1/2 and a 4 for the second. I picked out Tarquin Hall’s The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken: A Vish Puri Mystery almost a year ago when I was visiting Macalaster College with my niece. I hadn’t read any of the other books in the series, but thought it looked amusing and I love books that really place you in a location. It wasn’t necessary for me to read previous entries to understand […]
Oh SNAP!
So many years ago, when the world was much different than it is now, I read Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell and was so thrilled and scared and delighted. The character development wasn’t much, but the medical examiner trope was pretty fresh. Also, the settings were not the usual Boston/LA/New York kinds of settings. Her Kay Scarpetta series started going off the rails for me as everyone fell in love with Dr. Scarpetta and she got surlier and surlier. I confess I haven’t read many of […]