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Back to this special Hebridean Scottish island community for me, at last! There is nothing more fun, than the respectful but amused and bemused reactions, of an Englishwoman who has been loving accepted among them. This rocks for my own "Celtic Coast" challenge. Join me! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/celtic...

I like reading about exploring houses, the superb resource of letters and documents revealing the events of the past, finding physical objects that are there still their people used them. This is one of a million reasons I will always prefer and value objects we touch, versus electronic copies. The physical handling needs to be there, to leave its energy for loved-ones to discover, sense themselves, and appreciate.

I hate it if a horror wipes out an animal. A mystery ceases to be "cozy", or tolerable, if a cat is fictionally killed!!!! There is no serial killer, it might be something as trivial as jealousy over sex, or greed over money. There is no standard human murder and it is a fucking town play!!!! A sweet cat we didn't know a family had, whose role we don't know either, is suddenly murdered! F you, terrible author!!!!

I'm sure I'll like this soon. It's starting with detail and dialogue at the level of "Who gives a shit". It's like the authoress thought we already loved characters, we have merely begun to know, enough for their chatter to be an attraction. I don't mean descriptions of the fabulous bookstore, with painting mysteries for customers like I do with my reading challenge, My Kind Of Mystery: ("which novel is this?")!

I didn't know these famous painted bears all along Broadway in 2005, were a large-scale fundraiser for Cancer Care Manitoba! I also didn't know they were celebrating 75 years! Lastly I didn't know the mould sculptor designed them after Debbie, the polar bear at Winniipeg's zoo! We all love her. I visited her since I was a baby in a stroller and many times through my life. She lived to be age 42 in November 2008!

I am way of light mysteries delivering quality and Annie's bossy, argumentative demeanour turned me off in volume 2. I felt volume 1 had a lot of promise and only hated the euthanasia topic in that novel.
Something one is against in a book cannot be enjoyed. So, I look to volume 3 to break the tie of my feelings so far! My spouse made the great point last night that we need to read another after divided results.

This is excruciating to read. I don't care how big anyone's name is. "The Edible Woman" was the most bizarre to wrap a head around and is better than this. I don't care how intelligently eloquent Margaret is either. The narration, tone, and dialogue are flat. I loathe first-person present and I loathe authors who don't know better, not to use "said" after a sentence that is a question! I will be glad to finish!

Oh dear, this is written so flatly, narration- and dialogue-wise, that my aversion to not finishing might be what gets me through. If it is the television movie I recall glimpses of when I was a youngster, the action gets almost disturbing. I hope the secondary characters are more likeable in written form. I hope authors employ "asked" / "wondered" instead of the irritating, incorrect "said", following a question.

I have a note on my profile that a lot of folks don't catch. Every week, someone messages me via private Goodreads' mailboxes. But on my slow speed internet I have to avoid that. Goodreads confirmed they can't block mailboxes. I love talking one-on-one with friends I make but don't want kooks to see my e-mail address. I'll give it temporarily. If you would like to write, please note it here: RonCar@Prairie.ca.

I like Sarah Rayne's series for being standard adult mystery (not "cozy" fluff). This is where I tiptoe around categorization. I don't want horror, where ghosts are often written as demons instead of a haunting. They in such short supply for standard adult mystery. However except the bizarre "The Sin Eater", Sarah does supply that. Horror categorization merely means there are properly suspenseful, eerie spirits.

Too many miss my profile note! PLEASE CONTACT ME ANY WAY, EXCEPT WITH THE GOODSREADS MAILBOX SYSTEM! It is inconvenient to sign into other screens, even if I didn't have slow speed internet. If we can disable it, I'll do that right away. If something needs to be private, or you would like to chat one-on-one, my pleasure. I'll give my e-mail, you give yours, or a comment at my blog gives me your e-mail invisibly.

I am rolling along with enjoyment. This mystery and its eclectic, very original cast, are so compelling that I only pause the pages to sleep. Perhaps due to sensitivity and perspective, I seldom read men but David Handler has the technique novelists should have. There is no waning of interest or action pertaining to this mystery, where you feel a stop in the book. I keep turning the pages, the makings of 5 stars!

I love rejoining this wonderful pair of people. To all Canadians: HAPPY LOUIS RIEL day! To all who are curious about Canadian history or supportive of Aboriginal history, my aneestor is worth looking up. This is a new holiday for Canadians that started a few years ago. Louis' Grandma, Marie-Anne Lagimodiere was extraordinary: the first white woman to travel and live in the Canadian west: Godmother of Manitoba!

It is high time I rejoined film critic writer, Mitch Berger and his gorgeous, black, fit, cat-rescuing, police officer girlfriend. I love their colourful personality combination. I love that, although too many people call everything with a cute cover and comprising a series, "a cozy mystery": this is "standard adult mystery". More serious, sometimes disturbing crimes. I seldom read males but enjoy David Handler.

All of my reading groups and membership with Goodreads, originate from my Wordpress blog, called RIEDEL Fascination. I would like to share in the most visible way possible, my 7th anniversary! Happy seventh anniversary to RIEDEL Fascination! I would love it, if you would visit and learn a bit about me. Yours sincerely, Carolyn. https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2018/0...

Laura's style of placing her focus on physicality, is not for me. It detracts from making this a phenomenal ghost novel, which is a shame because decent, serious, non-horror, non-cozy ones for adults are rare. It sucks extra when a rare opportunity to have an age 35+ protagonist is not written right, with the enchanting atmosphere and enthralled pace. However I've reached far enough for any book to be interesting.

Several key notes to authors. Description can dilly dally in other genres but in mystery, you need to stick with details pertinent to the mystery. In the paranormal, you need to deliver the tone and scenes that highlight THAT. In general: books are not screen plays or film scripts! Limit the point of view of physical description! Lead with the emotions. In writing, you need to put us into a protagonist's head.

I wonder how many purchase or collect literature. Most reviewers thank freebies. I buy all of mine, thus strive for the best prices. That is much of the fun, when real books are the goal. Once in a while, a book sounds worth getting new. Alas, with tone & focus not as thrilling as the paranormal seemed sure to be, I lament that this cost $15 CDN! E-types aren't for me but I wish this had been cheap, like usual!

I wish this had eerie narration. Tone matters in storytelling. However it is rare to find a non-cozy, non-horror mystery featuring spirits, for adults instead of children. So we'll see if the paranormal element lends the mysteriousness I have looked forward to since my eye was on this book. I buy all my books as physical items, second-hand usually. I treated myself to this one brand new. It had better be great!

"Sense And Sensibility", far from the genre, era, and type I usually read, is managing to take turns that surprise me and is indeed enjoyable. If it weren't "Oak Island" and "Star Trek Discovery" night, I wouldn't have fallen asleep nigh on the last chapters. I am nearly finished my first Jane Austen novel! As I have shared: it is the least I can do, since I have visited the entrance interior of the lady's house!

I am really making my way to the finish line now. It takes quite an author, to noticeably effect a perception change, like it occurs in life. It is possible that personages whom we thought charming and similar to us in interests, are not for us. Personages who seemed not our cup of tea, can become dear and prove profoundly loyal and moral. Even Mrs. Jennings and Elinor herself, become heroines we did not foresee.

I am past halfway finished my first Jane Austen novel! The language is dense but I like sampling how richly a competent writer can use words. Especially since this is no strutting fancy vocuabulary for ostentation but truly deriving from a woman of 1811 and how she must have spoken. Now the tale gets more interesting than I would have thought. I expected only a character study. Herein are two beaux who are cads!