Comments | koalathebear: Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time: Extract about popular literature

koalathebear

Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time: Extract about popular literature

Apr 29, 2007 20:06

It's Sunday night 8pm. I'm still at the office and I'm back at work tomorow. It is true, today is technically my birthday - but I'm cancelling my birthday this year. There will be no festivities. I received a huge bunch of flowers from my colleagues that said: 'Thank you for bringing so much happiness to us' but tonight ate my birthday dinner ( Read more... )

josephine tey, books, daughter of time, book review

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22by7 April 29 2007, 12:28:21 UTC

i think i've read something by her that's not 'the daughter of time' - it was called, i think, 'brat farrar'. liked it a lot.

koalathebear May 5 2007, 02:45:16 UTC

Daughter of Time is my favourite but I have also read Brat Farrar which is excellent.

dangermousie April 29 2007, 13:57:28 UTC

I love Josephine Tey and DoT is my favorite of hers. I am soe xcited as I didn't think anyone else has heard of her!

koalathebear May 5 2007, 02:46:17 UTC

I've read almost all her books as Tey, one by her as Daviot. She's not as easy to find as she should be but hopefully one day I'll make it through her entire catalogue. She didn't write THAT many books.

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koalathebear April 29 2007, 14:40:38 UTC

You're very kind. Thank you so much! I'm sure everything will be fine, too. :D

It's like the latest Patricia Cornwall, the latest John Grisham, the latest Nora Roberts, the latest Dan Brown.

Ooops sorry :D It should read It's like how we refer to the latest Patricia Cornwall, the latest John Grisham, the latest Nora Roberts, the latest Dan Brown. ie. criticising how each book is like the last :D

ladysunflow April 29 2007, 16:34:20 UTC

You have birthday on the same day as my favourite aunt. You remind me of her sometimes :))) *hugs* May your inner batteries recharge well in Australia :)

koalathebear May 5 2007, 02:47:19 UTC

Thank you so much! It's very nice to be home again.

lesbiassparrow April 29 2007, 17:29:05 UTC

Sorry about the rotten birthday. Hopefully the celebrations in Australia will make up for it.

And I love that description of authors and their prepackaged nature...though sometimes this makes it easy if what you want is depression down on the farm and they tell you it's like some other book which features weathered men, harsh winters, and bankruptcy! Not that that is a category I find particularly alluring.

koalathebear May 5 2007, 02:48:39 UTC

Thank you. It's lovely to be back home again. It's just nice to be able to understand everything without effort again and it's so clean and peaceful here :D

As to pre-packaging, I bought a few Nora Roberts novels here because I was in a mood for a guaranteed happy ending with heroic heroines and steadfast heroes ;)