alexpgp: (St. Jerome w/ computer)
alexpgp ([personal profile] alexpgp) wrote2009-10-16 11:21 am

Friday morning catch-up...

I've been sneaking a page or ten of Sue Grafton's R is for Ricochet at odd moments over the past couple of weeks and find myself now two-thirds of the way through the book, in a strange situation.

Unlike many mystery authors, who try to smack you in the face with some serious action - typically, someone getting killed - within the first couple of pages of a new story, Grafton has woven a tale in which a lot of stuff has been revealed (money laundering, philandering, mind games), but almost nothing has actually happened.

So I'm wondering: Why do I keep turning the pages?

I have some ideas as to why, but if I can definitively answer this question, I think I'll be a lot further along in the writing game.

Cheers...

[identity profile] alexpgp.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. Lately, I've been leaving heaps of books unfinished, sometimes after just a few pages.

Cheers...

P.S. Who's the photographer in your userpic?
P.P.S. And is he/she/it trying to take a self-portrait?

[identity profile] daphnis.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
We haven't been properly introduced, Monkey and I, but I believe it took its own picture in the course of experimentation. It is trying to figure out what makes that clicking sound when it tromps on a certain projection piece. It looks a lot like me trying to figure out why the computer won't boot or the DSL won't do its thing ~~ a lot of this world is moving far too fast for me to catch up with!