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I dropped poor Kiki off for her first injection. Did you know hound dogs are very good at looking betrayed? One more tomorrow, and then two months of limited activity and she should be clear.
I finished The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. If you haven't read it and want to, you may want to skip although I'm not going to be really spoilery.
I've only read a small amount of Agatha Christie, partly because I prefer the people to the puzzle, and that means Sayers is my jam. I don't tend to try and solve the mystery as I go along, and I wonder if this book is better for those people who do, or who love twisty plotting and don't care about the characters. The character at the center of the story is almost entirely a cipher even after a few background details come to light. Since you don't have much attachment to the main character (and he doesn't have much attachment to himself, in a bunch of ways), some of what might be big revelations fall flat a bit because they're not given room to breathe and the plot whisks you away again.
The ending also opens up a lot of questions about the world the story is set in, and I don't know if they are best left as things for the reader to decide on, or if they needed to be poked at a bit more.
I will probably read the book over at least once more, but I feel like it won't keep drawing me back because once the puzzle is solved, I don't think there will be a lot of satisfaction in watching it play out again. (This is more ironic than I mean to be, given the subject of the book!)
I finished The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. If you haven't read it and want to, you may want to skip although I'm not going to be really spoilery.
I've only read a small amount of Agatha Christie, partly because I prefer the people to the puzzle, and that means Sayers is my jam. I don't tend to try and solve the mystery as I go along, and I wonder if this book is better for those people who do, or who love twisty plotting and don't care about the characters. The character at the center of the story is almost entirely a cipher even after a few background details come to light. Since you don't have much attachment to the main character (and he doesn't have much attachment to himself, in a bunch of ways), some of what might be big revelations fall flat a bit because they're not given room to breathe and the plot whisks you away again.
The ending also opens up a lot of questions about the world the story is set in, and I don't know if they are best left as things for the reader to decide on, or if they needed to be poked at a bit more.
I will probably read the book over at least once more, but I feel like it won't keep drawing me back because once the puzzle is solved, I don't think there will be a lot of satisfaction in watching it play out again. (This is more ironic than I mean to be, given the subject of the book!)