tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889198.post2863080193932437375..comments2023-09-01T09:41:41.370-06:00Comments on Anne's Space: Quality of WritingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889198.post-79931062078861792762010-01-30T13:23:19.792-07:002010-01-30T13:23:19.792-07:00You might try the Dianne Mott Davidson mysteries a...You might try the Dianne Mott Davidson mysteries about a caterer in Colorado. The early ones have her single (newly divorced, which offers plenty of drama) but she progresses from there in a way you might like. I picked the series up in the middle, being intrigued by "Sticks and Scones" but then backtracked because I liked the character so much. Just my 0.02.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13319350679752032372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889198.post-18695070463653742032010-01-29T14:19:34.825-07:002010-01-29T14:19:34.825-07:00True, bel. Then the heroine can be "faithful...True, bel. Then the heroine can be "faithful" to her dead love and never another word said about it.<br /><br />And the funny thing is (from what I've experienced in real life) that attachment can be incredibly easy to break off. One or other of the partners just decides that s/he wasn't as much in love as s/he thought, s/he moves to another city for serious or frivilous reasons, s/he meets someone else, etc. ad nauseum. Fiction of many sorts is too apt to depict love as the completest most enduring sort of love, something that only Death can sever.<br /><br />Of my mystery partners (whose story unfortunately is incomplete), one is happily married and the other unlucky in love. Though they are of different genders, they each have little sexual interest in the other.<br /><br />I think the Loss Of Love Through Death is a lazy shortcut. Not saying it doesn't happen IRL, it just happens WAY too often in mysteries with a female protagonist. Almost as often as the parent(s) who died prematurely through some accident or violence.Anne C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09444051201220766948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889198.post-85684824757845033452010-01-29T12:45:39.354-07:002010-01-29T12:45:39.354-07:00I agree that mysteries are just right for audio bo...I agree that mysteries are just right for audio books. I "read" one of the Home Repair is Homicide books a while back and thoroughly enjoyed it. Incidentally, the protagonist was happily married and so was her partner. No relationship angst!<br /><br />(I find I often enjoy sequels better than the first part of stories if the relationship is a key plot point in the first one. It's out of the way then and we can get on with the fun stuff.)belsumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943795389862466294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889198.post-37926844923866915162010-01-28T19:00:14.264-07:002010-01-28T19:00:14.264-07:00Well, for what it's worth, I've seen that ...Well, for what it's worth, I've seen that one go both ways.<br /><br />And I love Robert B Parker's Spenser series; although Spenser and Susan aren't married, they are devoted, and the worst (IMO) books in the series are the ones where their relationship is in conflict.<br /><br />Plus, unrequited love is a bit harder to do perhaps in modern times--you no longer have race or class or parental disapproval or even socioeconomic status as barriers to relationships, so if you're going to have the hero or heroine suffer in love, you're kinda stuck with death as they way to end a love match.<br /><br />Do I agree with that? No. But then I don't like stories where the focus is on the relationship. :)Random Michelle Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13817444379694818074noreply@blogger.com