Ok, I work @ Wally World. Long long story, not my ideal job but the first one that called for an interview and I hadn't worked in town in so long I wasn't sure how much I could do physically or mentally (especially after lyme disease). It's been a pain @ times but a blast, my kids want me to keep working because it keeps me busy (translation: mama is occupied with something other than ebay and painting) and husband likes the grocery money I bring in.
Why do I bring this up? Because I started The September Society at work on my breaks and lunch hours this week. I didn't get far (maybe because of all the talk in the breakroom) and wasn't really into it or impressed @ first but last night I started reading about 11 or so and finished it @ 2 am. Charles Finch is no Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but he's good. The comparison to Sherlock Holmes is inevitable as Lenox the dectective in The September Society is in London and doing his dectective work in the 1800s. Finch does manage to interject a little of the Jane Austen novel into his Holmes like work which makes it more enjoyable I think if not true to the detective genre. Boy I'm coming up with the big words aren't I? tee hee hee..... Seriously a good light read for a cold winters evening or two. The clues seem a little more far fetched than Holmes do but I read most of the Sherlock Holmes stories as a child so I may look on them with more nostalgia than anything I read now.
Here's a link to amazon where you can buy the book for one of those winter nights.
4 comments:
Hi. Came over from Google groups. Just taking a look at your blog. I LOVE your template!
Why not change your Nav bar to black, it would look better than the blue. And fill in the "Interests" section in your profile. Each interest you list becomes a link, so someone searching for a word that's on your list might find you.
As busy as you must be, you've found time to put up a great blog! God bless!
Thanks very much for reading, Missouri Books.
Thanks P Maillet, I'd already done the interests deal this morning after reading I should do it like 12 times yesterday. I just now changed my nav bar and you are right it does look better.
Thanks for the kind words about my blog.
Thanks for leaving your comment Charles Finch, I did like the book which is evidenced by my finishing it in 3 hours!! LOL
And of course I'm going to have to read A Beautiful Blue Death now!
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