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Checking books out from the library means that I usually read them. The last book finished, the one that I'm still mulling over, was Craig Johnson's newest Longmire mystery, Daughter of the Morning Star. Everything about this particular novel was very, very good. Boy, howdy was it good. For anyone who just watched the television show and wondered if the entire thing was about problems with the rez, nope. The series, what I watched of it, which wasn't very much because the television Walt Longmire is not the book Longmire, nor is the television Vic the novel Vic, was kind of boring. I much prefer the novel Longmire, an aging sheriff of a huge area, who gets shot or has a stupid stumble or has the combination of age and physical mishaps that slow him down and make him think. That Longmire keeps trying to understand how life has changed, tries very hard to keep in touch with his friends, doesn't understand a lot and admits it, and has one of the best secondary characters ever, Henry Standing Bear, and, of course, Dog. How can I not love a series where a big old mutt gets serious page time? This novel features basketball, tribal sports rivalries, and Cheyenne mysticism. Johnson ends this novel cruelly. While the main part of the mystery has been solved, the background one hasn't, and it's clear that we have to wait another year.
Also read Murder, She Knit by Peggy Ehrhart, a "knit and nibble" mystery. This was for a Facebook book club sponsored by a yarn store. Like many first novels, the writing is rough; however, what sold this book to me was the author did a lot of work to make all the clues knitting related. There are actual friendships of varying levels. The protagonist guesses wrong several times. It takes the kind of amateur legwork that I expect from an interested but not law enforcement character to do. She sold six novels in the series, or at least that's how many my library system has, and it was enough fun that I asked for the next two. As an added plus, at the end of the book, sort of as an afterward, she includes a knitting pattern for a scarf and a recipe.
Still having fun writing. How wonderful that, when I can't find the answer online, I know real life professionals who are willing to answer weird questions. Maritime shipping questions, if you were curious.
Cross-posted from dreamwidth.org
Also read Murder, She Knit by Peggy Ehrhart, a "knit and nibble" mystery. This was for a Facebook book club sponsored by a yarn store. Like many first novels, the writing is rough; however, what sold this book to me was the author did a lot of work to make all the clues knitting related. There are actual friendships of varying levels. The protagonist guesses wrong several times. It takes the kind of amateur legwork that I expect from an interested but not law enforcement character to do. She sold six novels in the series, or at least that's how many my library system has, and it was enough fun that I asked for the next two. As an added plus, at the end of the book, sort of as an afterward, she includes a knitting pattern for a scarf and a recipe.
Still having fun writing. How wonderful that, when I can't find the answer online, I know real life professionals who are willing to answer weird questions. Maritime shipping questions, if you were curious.
Cross-posted from dreamwidth.org