Pulp Fiction
One of the first things I bought while on our book buying binge in the Southern Highlands was a diary for next year. It's usually the kind of thing I like to wait until Christmas for but unfortunately it seems that nowadays Christmas is too late to start organising next year.
The selection of diaries was not great. I considered getting a Sydney Morning Herald Good Food diary, but it seemed a bit superfluous when we have The Book and it was quite bulky and irritating. In the end I settled on a dictionary, which, while very exciting, was not good for subsequent book buying levels: The Granta Classic Crime diary.
Diary
Every week there is a new photo of a crime classic, and a interesting fact on one of the dates either taken from a book (e.g. "Solomon Moretsi signed a sworn statement, as witnessed by Jesus, about his bicycle accident on 10 May. Ma Ramotswe is asked to investigate.") or about an author (e.g. "Colin Dexter, the creator of Inspector Morse, was born in Stamford, Lincs., on 29 September 1930.").
This prompted to me to buy trashy crime novels, firstly to collect all the books featured in my diary (I found none of them) and secondly to buy all the winners of the yearly prizes listed at the front of the diary (I don't think I found any of these either). Still I managed to buy a lot that weren't on either list but looked exciting. And that was after turning the vast majority down.
I've just finished reading the first of these. This was particularly exciting as it was written by Jacqueline Wilson, who is now a famous children's author.
Snap!
It was quite a cute book, although more a thriller than a who dunnit (I guess it was more of a whosgoingtodoit). Just another 20 or so to go....
One of the first things I bought while on our book buying binge in the Southern Highlands was a diary for next year. It's usually the kind of thing I like to wait until Christmas for but unfortunately it seems that nowadays Christmas is too late to start organising next year.
The selection of diaries was not great. I considered getting a Sydney Morning Herald Good Food diary, but it seemed a bit superfluous when we have The Book and it was quite bulky and irritating. In the end I settled on a dictionary, which, while very exciting, was not good for subsequent book buying levels: The Granta Classic Crime diary.
Diary
Every week there is a new photo of a crime classic, and a interesting fact on one of the dates either taken from a book (e.g. "Solomon Moretsi signed a sworn statement, as witnessed by Jesus, about his bicycle accident on 10 May. Ma Ramotswe is asked to investigate.") or about an author (e.g. "Colin Dexter, the creator of Inspector Morse, was born in Stamford, Lincs., on 29 September 1930.").
This prompted to me to buy trashy crime novels, firstly to collect all the books featured in my diary (I found none of them) and secondly to buy all the winners of the yearly prizes listed at the front of the diary (I don't think I found any of these either). Still I managed to buy a lot that weren't on either list but looked exciting. And that was after turning the vast majority down.
I've just finished reading the first of these. This was particularly exciting as it was written by Jacqueline Wilson, who is now a famous children's author.
Snap!
It was quite a cute book, although more a thriller than a who dunnit (I guess it was more of a whosgoingtodoit). Just another 20 or so to go....
posted by Zoe at 6:18 PM
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