[ebooktalk] Re: Elaine's Monthly reads.
- From: "David Russelll" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 23:48:25 +0100
Think I might try Kerry Greenwood. Must finish the Corley first though.
This new one is very good indeed.
David
From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Elaine Harris (Rivendell)
Sent: 07 October 2013 23:06
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Elaine's Monthly reads.
Shell, there is one Kerry Greenwood series I couldn't handle; a sort of
post-apocalyptic weird set-up, similar in some ways to Margaret Atwood's
"Oryx and Craik"; I couldn't read either.
I think her Corinna Chapman series in a way is more relevant if you know
Melbourne, even though the building where she lives - a sort of complex of
flats and shops - is fictitious. What I like about both Corinna Chapman and
Phryne Fisher is that you meet a regular cast of characters as well as new
ones. Like meeting old friends.
Regardless of her writing, she is a fascinating woman. She is a Legal Aid
solicitor, passionate about human rights and social justice, adores cats
and, so her bio says, lives with a registered wizard! I have interviewed her
and had occasional email exchanges and like her a lot.
I haven't read all by Philippa Gregory, not by a long way, but have enjoyed
other work by her. "The White Queen", "The Boleyn Inheritance" on Anne of
Cleeves and Catherine Howard and am part-way through reading "The White
Princess" but have temporarily derailed myself with the inadvertent plunge
into Dorothy L. Sayers/Jill Paton Walsh books.
Take care,
Elaine
From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Shell
Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2013 4:14 AM
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ebooktalk] Elain's Monthly reads.
Hi Elaine, I did try to read a Kerry Greenwood a few years ago, but didn't
get on with it too well. I am not convinced I gave it a proper try though
and might have another go at some point as she gets such good reviews.
I really enjoyed The Other Queen though, it was the first Philippa Gregory I
read and I was hooked after that. She can really bring history alive.
Shell.
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From: "Elaine Harris (Rivendell)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 1:41 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] September Reads.
> I seemed to read in clumps last month, more by luck than judgment, and
> almost purely for pleasure and escapism.
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> Two books by Kerry Greenwood, one of my favourite Australian mystery
> writers: generally lightish, though perhaps less tongue-in-cheek than
> Caroline Graham. Kerry has written various sequences of books; one in
> modern-day Melbourne featuring Corinne Chapman, a baker; the other in
1920s
> Melbourne, featuring Phryne (rhymes with whiny) Fisher. It was two of the
> latter that I read. "Blood and Circuses" and "Cocaine Blues". (Actually in
> the wrong order, chronologically but didn't matter as I have read others.)
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> "Stratton's War", Laura Wilson. Had to finish it but not quite me.
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> "The Other Queen", Philippa Gregory, featuring Mary Queen of Scots.
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> Three by my friend Jackie French: "Walking the Boundaries", "Daughter of
the
> Regiment" and a beautiful lyrical novel, "Summerland". All Junior Fiction.
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> Two Agatha Christie Miss Marples: "A Murder if Announced" and "The Body in
> the Library". Know the stories well but had never read them.
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> "Death Comes to Pemberley", P. D. James. A "Pride and Prejudice" sequel
> entwined with a murder mystery. Style and characters all true to type;
> well-written and well-researched.
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> I know there are mixed feelings about sequels and I share some of them -
> have read many I have disliked including "The second Mrs. De Winter" - but
> loved this.
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> "Lyra's Oxford", Philip Pullman. A very short sequel to the Dark Materials
> trilogy; loved it.
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> More escapism with two Lilian Harry war-time novels.
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> "A Thousand Splendid Suns". Deeply moving.
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> Tried others but found they were not for me.
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> Am currently bingeing on the final Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey
> novels: one I knew only as a play but which was later expanded into a
novel
> and now two co-written by Jill Paton Walsh. Guiltless self-indulgence.
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> Elaine
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