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Sandra’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Sandra’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Sandra Davies
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in Dovercourt, Essex, The United Kingdom
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Having read 700+ crime novels since 2011, and with a top 10 which chan
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April 2012
Ten years of triangles
'Drink with a dead man' is the fourth of what looks like being a six-book series.
The first – 'Step so Grave' – began as a challenge to myself to write a crime novel. Doing so provided a very steep learning curve and a need to further explore the oft-times toxic chemistry between detective inspector Luke Darbyshere and crime journalist, Baz Rose; a relationship put to the test in 'Longest shadows r Read more of this blog post »
The first – 'Step so Grave' – began as a challenge to myself to write a crime novel. Doing so provided a very steep learning curve and a need to further explore the oft-times toxic chemistry between detective inspector Luke Darbyshere and crime journalist, Baz Rose; a relationship put to the test in 'Longest shadows r Read more of this blog post »
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Step so grave (Love triangles with murder #1)
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Drink with a dead man [Love triangles with murder #4]
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Damage limitation (Bridie and Sean #4)
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2012
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The blacksmith's wife
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2013
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Edge: curve, arc, circle
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2011
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Donovan & Burdock (Bridie and Sean #1-3)
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2012
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Making good (Bridie and Sean #5)
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2015
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Commission & omission [Love triangles with murder #3]
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One that got away
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2011
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At the stroke of Thirteen
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| Captivated by the opening sentence, then immediately absorbed by the story and the unputdownable tension - along with, as ever - the delight of Lorraine's writing, this is a heart-stopping, heart-warming, magic tale, a very different genre from my us ...more | |
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“East coasters ... attenders at the church of What Is”
― Electric Brae
― Electric Brae
“Perhaps the loaded question is: How often is maternal self-sacrifice really only masochistic martyrdom, destructive to the mother and destructive to the child as well?”
― Sweet Suffering: Woman as Victim
― Sweet Suffering: Woman as Victim
“I probably reread novels more often than I read new ones. The novel form is made for rereading. Novels are by their nature too long, too baggy, too full of things – you can't hold them completely in your mind. This isn't a flaw – it's part of the novel's richness: its length, multiplicity of aspects, and shapelessness resemble the length and shapelessness of life itself. By the time you reach the end of the novel you will have forgotten the beginning and much of what happens in between: not the main outlines but the fine work, the detail and the music of the sentences – the particular words, through which the novel has its life. You think you know a novel so well that there must be nothing left in it to discover but the last time I reread Emma I found a little shepherd boy, brought into the parlour to sing for Harriet when she's staying with the Martin family. I'm sure he was never in the book before.”
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Sandra, I'm such a ditz. I really appreciated your like and your comment, but in replying I confused the two and replied to the wrong one and then accidently erased yours in trying to correct mine.Sandra wrote: "Michael, I'd say you re one of the last people who needs to write 'better'. Your voice is admirably strong."
Thank you, but you know, onward and upward. Besides, who can resist getting some advice from Captain LeGuin?
By the way, I hope to find out if Save the Cat Writes a Novel is really worth reading. I await your review.
Only just found this Michael, and you'll have to wait just as long for any review of 'Save the Cat'. Not because it is bad but because I find it extremely hard (i.e. take advice from) books. I had to enlist the help of the friends who recommended it to me to understand 'beat sheets' and having done so have got myself mired in trying to make a plot which had any oomph, and tension, in it, I requested the help of a police advisor who pointed out the bits I'd got badly wrong and found me an undercover policeman to also help, but I'm going round and round in sinking circles, not sure whether its my age; residue from the minor stroke I had, or what, but I do want to persist as book #6 is clamouring to be finished. the .