Wow! Waking up in the morning and knowing you've got your broadband back is like being a kid and it's your birthday!!
Or something.
Grumpy went out with a mate last night and got, as The Cramps would say, "messed up". I'm waiting for him to awaken from his beauty sleep so we can head off to Cottesloe or Leederville - you know, anywhere but where we live for goodness' sake - for a coffee.
When we go to Cottesloe I sometimes pop into the Collins Booksellers for a browse while Grumpy waits (im)patiently. I'll just whisper to you that he's not a reader. Shhh.
I like the Collins shop because they have an interesting little selection of books and someone in there has taken the time to break down some of the sections into further delightful categories, indicated by blue laminated labels on the shelves:
- Harold Bloom's Canon
- Soft-Boiled Shopping Noir
- Murder with a Lovely Historical Background
- Jaded Forensic Pathologists
...and my favourite, which I knew would please Grumpy no end:
- Genteel English Murders
5 comments:
I desperately need more Genteel English Murders in my life!
Also, I need a bookstore which labels its shelves thus.
Apart from ngaio marsh and the miss marples, where do I begin?
haze, what's your email address these days? I have a joke on topic for you & nowhere to send it to. You know where to find me...
Carol, Ngaio is good, isn't she? I'm afraid my tastes aren't too exciting but what about:
Dalziel & Pascoe by Reginald Hill - he's frightfully amusing and oh so clever. A Clubbable Woman, Death's Jest Book, A Killing Kindness, Deadheads and The Death of Dalziel are all goodies.
I do like PD James very much. If I'm in the mood I'll read Ruth Rendell but she can be a bit grim. Everything's always got to be so perverse with her.
The Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L Sayers.
I also RILLY like Kerry Greenwood's series of books featuring Phryne Fisher.
Erm...who else...well Georges Simenon's Maigret books always delight.
GK Chesterton.
Oh Leslie Charteris' The Saint series.
I think in his own way Ian Rankin fits in here and also, but very differently, Alexander McCall.
And Kinky Friedman. He writes good.
Sarah Ulmer: have sent you an email so you have my email so you can email me via email.
Thanks Haze. Turns out I did have your address, but I was searching for you by your name-that-is-not-Hazel. Silly me.
Mary Stewart is my favourite, although apparently her novels are 'gothic' and usually set outside England. But I do sometimes have to put them down to laugh. Nuff said.
reading : It's a mugs game now this television thing can do it all for you!
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