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(1) "I hate it when fairies come into the bar. They don't tip you worth a toot—not because they're stingy, but because they just forget."
- I'll give them a break, they likely don't observe the custom in whatever dimension they're from.
- Frankly, the vast majority of cultures in our own dimension neither tip nor expect tips. Could be Claudine lived a while in Scandinavia or East Asia?
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— Jan 20, 2026 09:45AM
(1) "I hate it when fairies come into the bar. They don't tip you worth a toot—not because they're stingy, but because they just forget."
- I'll give them a break, they likely don't observe the custom in whatever dimension they're from.
- Frankly, the vast majority of cultures in our own dimension neither tip nor expect tips. Could be Claudine lived a while in Scandinavia or East Asia?
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(1) Goodreads really needs to take into account front matter (Roman-numeral) pagination for progress updates.
- Just going by the official page numbers, it looks like I haven't read anything at all!
(2) Correction: "A Touch of Dead" makes up a third of this, not half as I stated before.
- My mistake was comparing the page count for each book, not accounting for font differences.
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— Jan 18, 2026 01:00AM
(1) Goodreads really needs to take into account front matter (Roman-numeral) pagination for progress updates.
- Just going by the official page numbers, it looks like I haven't read anything at all!
(2) Correction: "A Touch of Dead" makes up a third of this, not half as I stated before.
- My mistake was comparing the page count for each book, not accounting for font differences.
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Notes:
(1) My first time through the series, I read "A Touch of Dead," subtitled "Sookie Stackhouse, The Complete Stories."
- Premature, it turns out, since that amounts to little-more-than half of what's in this "Complete Stories."
- I don't know why they didn't just come out with a "Part 2." Instead, now I have to re-read the "A Touch of Dead" stories for the third time—my current audiobook re-read included!
— Jan 10, 2026 11:00AM
(1) My first time through the series, I read "A Touch of Dead," subtitled "Sookie Stackhouse, The Complete Stories."
- Premature, it turns out, since that amounts to little-more-than half of what's in this "Complete Stories."
- I don't know why they didn't just come out with a "Part 2." Instead, now I have to re-read the "A Touch of Dead" stories for the third time—my current audiobook re-read included!
- My guess is that they're just playing dumb because they don't want to bother with the math—I hate calculating tips!
(2) "My small town of Bon Temps [is] barely big enough to have its own Wal-Mart..."
- That's actually pretty impressive. My big city only has one Wal-Mart, and a small one at that.
(3) "I'm used to being up at night ... I had dated Bill for a long time."
- Actually, in book chronology, it was probably only for a few months, half a year at a stretch.
- I guess it's long for a person whose never had a boyfriend.
(4) Jeff: "Wasn't till I went back in the booth that I seen the glittery stuff."
Sookie: "What glittery stuff?"
Claude: "What we leave when we fade ... Fairy dust."
- Interestingly, vampires similarly become dust when they die, though more like ash and more so flaking away gradually.
- Additionally, it seems like fairies can also glamor people like vampires... or at least Claudine can.
(5) "Jeff didn't say anything. He didn't realize his lover was a fairy. I worry about the human race."
- Oh, I'm sure Jeff was well aware Claude was a fairy... just not the literal sort.
(6) Sookie plays detective here, culminating in sort of an Agatha Christie style where everyone's gathered together for the big reveal.
- Except that Sookie's sorting it all out on the fly.
(7) In sum: a solid, if unremarkable, cozy murder mystery—to the extent a story about strippers and crotch-shaving can be cozy.
- It's more notable for all the strip club seediness—office romances and extracurricular activities.