Near-Total Failure To Get My Act Together Wednesday

[evelyn_b]

I guess we're back down to one post a week, since work shows no signs of slowing down and I can't seem to manage my time any better. Oh well.

What I've Just Finished Reading

The Singing Sands was great, and if anything To Love and Be Wise was even better. At least, most of the grouchiness that in other books gets channeled into regional politics

Comments

[evelyn_b]

You seem to have my number :D Also, Flambeau retired from crime to become a private detective! I love the idea of this character so much that I wish he would hurry up and get a little more rounded. The Innocence of Father Brown is linked short stories rather than a novel, which seems to be stunting the character development a little.

Grant is so difficult! He's one of the few detectives on my detective roster who have something (to me) genuinely repellent about them -- as opposed to simply having foibles (I'm not going to count that rage-fueled rando from The Franchise Affair as part of the roster as he is an outlier and should not be counted) -- and he's also (consequently?) one of the easiest for me to sympathize with.

I haven't really sorted out how I feel about him yet and since it takes me approximately 900 years to sort out how I feel about fictional characters if it takes me any time at all, I don't know that I can say any more than that. But it is interesting that Tey wrote both the most gratuitously vindictive mystery I've read so far and this one, which is seasoned with all of the usual digs at The Wrong Sort of People but is ultimately one of the most forgiving. I don't know what it means.

[lost_spook]

I'm afraid all the Father Brown books are collections of short stories - he doesn't have any novels. I seem to recall the others are rather less linked, although I'm not sure. It's been a while & they tend to merge together. I remember Flambeau and his becoming a detective particularly. :-)

I don't know what it means.

Somebody with dark blue eyes once did something TERRIBLE to her??

[evelyn_b]

Somebody with dark blue eyes once did something TERRIBLE to her??

Well, that goes almost without saying! :\ Maybe she learned the hard way how important it was to Face Detect.

all the Father Brown books are collections of short stories

Well, that's all right! I don't know if I like the short story format as well for mysteries -- but hopefully we'll get some character development anyway. There's so much potential for it!