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Currently Reading: Shooting Gallery
Feb. 5th, 2007 11:21 amI know I won't be able to document every book I read this year, I've already missed too many and am too scatterbrained to simply remember what I've read, but I'm inspired to jot down an insight now and then.
My mom and I noticed a long time ago that mysteries often have really detailed descriptions of every meal the detective/narrator/hero eats, or sees eaten, or cooks, or thinks about. We figured the authors probably got hungry while they wrote. Anyway, once we noticed it, we couldn't stop noticing it - I really think a scholarly work on Food in the Popular Mystery Novel would have a lot of raw material.
The book I'm reading right now, Shooting Gallery, by Hailey Lind, does lovingly describe every meal and every beverage that artist/amateur sleuth encounters. What is striking me thus far in the read is how detailed her driving is. It's set in San Francisco and Oakland, and part of the fun of the locally set novel is, of course, recognizing the settings. this narrator doesn't stop there, but mentions every turn she takes, where she hits traffic and when she pays tolls. It might be more detail than I really want, I'm not sure.
That said, it's a decent amateur sleuth mystery so far; I'll have to finish it before I can fully evaluate it. The resolution is so important to how I feel about a mystery.
My mom and I noticed a long time ago that mysteries often have really detailed descriptions of every meal the detective/narrator/hero eats, or sees eaten, or cooks, or thinks about. We figured the authors probably got hungry while they wrote. Anyway, once we noticed it, we couldn't stop noticing it - I really think a scholarly work on Food in the Popular Mystery Novel would have a lot of raw material.
The book I'm reading right now, Shooting Gallery, by Hailey Lind, does lovingly describe every meal and every beverage that artist/amateur sleuth encounters. What is striking me thus far in the read is how detailed her driving is. It's set in San Francisco and Oakland, and part of the fun of the locally set novel is, of course, recognizing the settings. this narrator doesn't stop there, but mentions every turn she takes, where she hits traffic and when she pays tolls. It might be more detail than I really want, I'm not sure.
That said, it's a decent amateur sleuth mystery so far; I'll have to finish it before I can fully evaluate it. The resolution is so important to how I feel about a mystery.
