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rummaging through somebody’s house for clues seems rude now

Sad truth is I’ve heard both genders be assholes like this more times than I can count. — “Oh, well,” said Mrs. Hale’s husband, with good-natured superiority, “women are used to worrying over trifles.”

Call to Adventure. — “…then the sheriff came running…”

Or another possibility is that women were always writing crime stories but never getting published. or both. — “…women chose to write crime stories because they were successful at it. Success on the part of one woman breeds the desire for success on the part of another.”

Every story has a main conflict. — “What a crime does in a piece of literature is two-fold. First, it serves as a throughline for the story…”

This is for ALL of literature. You can’t say it’s specifically why we like crime novels. — “…normalcy is restored.”

aside: honey lasts forever because of its high sugar content. “Honey in its natural form is very low moisture. Very few bacteria or microorganisms can survive in an environment like that, they just die.”

that…don’t make sense, mike.

It breaks the illusion when Lily and her mother don’t have any problems with the moving company. I have yet to meet a person without a moving company horror story..

2021. “Representative Cori Bush of Missouri used the term birthing people in a hearing, causing a mini-uproar on social media. “When we talk about ‘birthing people,’ we’re being inclusive. It’s that simple,”

That’s a shame. When my son was born, nap time was partially for me. — “I HAVEN’T TAKEN a nap since I was in college, but…”

This book reminds me of the television strategy of deferring and pushing the resolution of romantic tension for as long as they can, preferably the last episode of the last season.

an aside: I wonder if my therapist would call a trial dichotomous thinking; black or white thinking; guilty or not guilty, and nothing in between.

lol. random.

not necessarily, Jordan. They aren’t completely strangers because you went through jury selection. Don’t ask me why the author choose to skip that part.

This book is about thirty years too late. Gay panic has been a thing for a long time. I’d be curious about something like transgendered pregnancy or new anti-trans legislation or something a little more recent if we’re going to be topical. — But maybe that says something about mainstream literature being thirty years late

cute vignette with the puppy but…completely irrelevant.

Sorry, but are jeans and a t-shirts considered masculine clothing? What century is the author from? — “I was wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt, but no one thought I was a boy.”

an aside: I’ve had multiple conversations with my son about how its ok for boys to like unicorns. I’ve been repeating this since he was four. I’m still mad at whoever shamed him in preschool. — “…when I chose the cello in third grade. Even then I was aware of what things boys…”

funny joke, author. — “…like his brain is bleeding from the inside…”

No, no one says this… —“…the girl in the back row “womaning” the gongs…”

That might just be your school, Lily, and not ALL of society? Generalization from one datapoint is poor science. — “All but one of the violins? Girls.”

I would like to remind the author that expert testimony is not free.

This does not happen in boys locker rooms. what a weird tangent by the author.

gross, mike.

No. I think the author is confusing violence for aggression here.

What. No. And since when is Livy a law expert, anyways? A quick google contradicts Livy: “Both rules …are suspended in cases where one spouse is accused of a crime against the other spouse or the spouse's child. Courts generally do not permit an adverse spouse to invoke either privilege during a trial initiated by the other spouse, or in the case of domestic abuse.”

Oh, no. Another lecture.

We’ve been told this information three times already.

God, I hope this bee documentary is revelant at some point.