I recently finished reading Barchester Towers, the first novel I have read by the nineteenth-century English writer Anthony Trollope. And I had a strange reaction to it. I was intrigued enough, amused enough, to keep reading to the end. And yet at the same time I felt bored by it. Or perhaps more specifically, it Read More…
Month: July 2020
When a Mystery Story Kills its Own Suspense (A Few Good Men and Knives Out)
This weekend I was in a courtroom drama mood, and placed a lot of holds at the library, of which the first to come in was A Few Good Men. So that’s what I watched! This is a movie in which I find myself always engrossed, despite being unsure how good a film it is. Read More…
A New Direction for This Blog
Hello, friends! I’m here because I want to take this blog in a new direction. Let me tell you about it. I have taken a blogging break during the last few years because I have been putting my writing efforts into a novel. That has required a steep learning curve. As part of that, I Read More…