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I love the Eskimo detective, and who can beat an easily distracted Cowboy detective? Distracted? Who me?? :)
Hey, Jodi, aren’t those awesome? Fiction is fun, huh?
yes–fiction is fun. :) I just finished, (okay, I finished because I had it in my car and read during my wait for people periods) The Floating City by Pamela Ball, which was a greatly unappreciated book. She always creates wonderful mind images.
I really enjoyed the cartoons. Blessed humor! And fiction. Though I don’t read that much any more.
I stumbled across Connie Willis recently (her books, that is), however, and really loved her novel “Dooms Day”–have you read it, or her? The novel’s called sci-fi but it’s much more humanistic than the robot-and-ray gun type–more like really, really good historical fiction (a genre I rarely enjoy, it’s so easy to get wrong).
Ooh, Jodi, I just looked at the book on Amazon. Hawaii, history, and mystery, looks intriguing…
I always have a book handy for those wait-for-people moments.
Hey, Fresca, another interest-grabbing title where history is involved, along with sci-fi. I obviously need to explore more fictive possibilities. Thanks for the recommendations.
Now back to critiquing other people’s writings in hopes they’ll return the favor…
You are an angel to critique other people’s work–and I bet you do it wonderfully.
I should add, since you haven’t read it, that “Dooms Day” starts out in the future, when Oxford University runs a time travel program for history students. A young woman student of medieval history is sent back and due to a malfunction ends up in England in 1347, the year of the Black Death (plague). It’s fascinating and very moving.
The one I’m reading now is “Lincoln’s Dreams,” about a modern-day (1989) young woman who for some mysterious reason is channeling the Civil War dreams of Robert E. Lee.
I like these novels because Connie Willis has done her homework and they are full of fascinating historical facts, handled with imagination, and woven in with likable characters. A great mix of fiction and nonfiction.