Sarah Ellen (in a slump) * and quite the curmudgeon as of late* > Recent Status Updates

There is something going on on the book right now that is making me think of “Silas Marner.”
I am in p. 209 but I have a large print edition. I tell myself it is because you can usually get large print editions of popular books much faster at the library.
Nice to not have to pick up my reading glasses too.

Reading this reminds me of why Stephen King’s writing has been so satisfying for me. Part of the appeal of horror or fantasy, I find, is when an author can establish reality for me and then so thoroughly convince me that the I believable has so naturally unfolded from it.

Yikes. What kind of cozy mystery is this? Now we have slut shaming. James actually told Agatha that she was gaining a reputation for being a slut 😳

Oh dear.
I have to say that I am getting tired of descriptions of women including the words “excellent legs, excellent breasts,”and,”hair glossy with health.” It’s icky and it sounds more like a description of a show dog.
Speaking of dogs ~ I am at the end of my rope with people being called “bitchy.”

I am having such a hard time with this book. Such cruelty and heartache. Worse than cruelty is that anyone can be so dispassionate about another’s suffering.
Children being taken away from their mothers ~ that seems to be my limit.
I am good to set this book down for a bit and go make a cup of tea.

I don’t think I can do it y’all. I don’t think I can finish this book.
*sigh*
It is probably me and not the book. I’m old and kind of battle worn. I think I just cannot do romance any more

Thank goodness that one of my “new, regular” librarians was working when I went to drop my books off. I have been saved from having to read my last two Lisa Gardner novels!

“Along the way, she passed a petite blonde whose hairstyle DD wouldn’t mind trying out for herself - the keynote speaker Karin Slaughter.” KARIN SLAUGHTER. The thriller writer I most detest. The woman who wrote a book that I rage quit.

Hahahahahahahaha
I’m dead
So, in this book DD is teaching a class called (I sh*t you not),” D.D. Warren’s Insider’s Guide to Policing.”
Where is my DD Warren hating buddy Pink? Girl I need you to sit in the back with me am heckle this clown. Okay, I know in my last review I said I was starting to like Warren (and Gardner) but here I am, not even ten pages in and I get hit with this:

The book blurb reads: “Detective D.D. Warren takes on her most intimidating assignment yet: a fifty-minute class meant to educate a horde of bloodthirsty thriller writers on the ways of actual police work.”
Oh boy.

Don’t feel sorry for me anymore (I mean, like if you were). Oh, I’m reading another Lisa G book? Oh, I’m smashing my hand with a hammer again? Yup. These books are still torture.
Only one more day until the library is open again and I can get to Agatha Raisin.

Darn it. No Agatha Raisin from the library yet :/ I am stuck with DD again

Now I am on page 233 and BAM! we have another young woman who runs distance, knows how to shoot guns, knows self defense, AND knows how to get multiple new identities, plan a murder, and sabotage a big ass metal fire escape. Yeesh. I guess I hang out with boring people.

Hold on. Wait. I am on page 102 and we have a new character in the DD Warren Universe who is describing how her mother force fed her a lightbulb. Didn’t that happen to the gal in the last book? The one with the Southern mom who raised roses and fed her daughter a light bulb?
Huh.
Both characters were also fed rat poison by their mothers.
Is this common and I just don’t know about it?

After a disastrous Spooktober and a truly disappointing November of awful thrillers ~ I have ordered three Christmas themed books (cozy mystery and two romances). I have put every Agatha Raisin on hold at the library. December is going to be all cozy mysteries and holiday schmaltz for this girl.

Did not like this book.

I got as far as the fact that your dog is more likely to eat you and why.
Then I stopped.
The tone of this book was weird.