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

[lost_spook]

Father Brown himself is my favorite type of detective, the False Innocent. Like Miss Marple, everyone automatically tries to protect him from any hint of the nastier side of life despite his being the least squeamish and most clear-sighted person in any given room.

I'd rather hoped you might like him for that! :-)

And the story I remember most clearly is that one with Flambeau, although I may actually be merging it with another, I think.

I'm glad to hear Grant can sometimes err on the kinder side of obsession.

[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

[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!

[egelantier]

i love that galadriel is pretty much the only from-valinor elf who's gotten everything she wanted - independence, her own kingdom, her chance to be a mover and a shaker - but oh, the cost.

and i always thought that the way she basically matchmaked aragorn and arwen and supported aragorn all the way was very, very personal; [sorry, i don't remember if you're reading or rereading silm]her own chance to spit into sauron's eye for finrod's life and beren's quest.

[evelyn_b]

Oh, that is an interesting thing I'd never thought of! (I've read parts of the Silmarillion but not all of it -- you don't have to worry too much about spoilers).