Two Envelopes And A Phone’s Reviews > The Library at Mount Char > Status Update

Benny Goodman's recording of 'Sing, Sing, Sing' is mentioned in this novel - and that sort of freaked me, because I had just read something else that mentioned Benny Goodman's 'Sing, Sing, Sing', right before starting this novel! I thought it was in Gideon's Day - the scenes at Chang's joint - but I can't find it. Now I'm thinking it was in Sandman Mystery Theatre (which is set in 1938), and I need check later. Odd!

I wanted to finish this book at Starbuck’s tonight, but unfortunately a woman there with a laptop was playing a video of someone’s wife preaching at a memorial service, loud enough so that the whole coffee shop could hear it, and I felt that my personal choice to listen or not listen to that memorial service had been violated, and so I left early, wondering about the future of me reading at coffee shops any more.

I guess I’m emerging from the section that must have caused a lot of DNF’ing (if the beginning didn’t)…and regarding that issue, for me, it’s fiction. I can detach, after reading it. I don’t have trauma over anything that is not real. On the other hand, I don’t watch the news or immerse myself in real-life stories that are terrible…like the equivalent of any fiction I read. But, to each their own, pain is personal.

This and then Pretty Girls. Turned my reluctance over doing two books from 2015 in a row - I usually like to shake up the years I visit - into enthusiasm: “this will be cool! Let’s flash back ten years via two novels that hit big!”. Big expectations for this, and Pretty Girls, so we’ll see if they can both deliver. The two are from my 30-book, seasonal Creepy Reading List of Horror and Creepy Crime offerings.

Courtney, at work, liked this one. And besides that, it's supposedta be good. I don't know how scary , or even if scary. Soon to know.