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Oct. 2nd, 2017 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Spent the weekend at home, mostly finding out why some of the books on my Mum's "to the charity shop" pile are on there.
I, once again, failed to get into an Elizabeth George. I try, about once every 4 years, to read one of her books to find out what it is that people see in them. And I can't. I legitimately can't. This one wasn't so Lynley-centric, but still had Tottenham man-dem speaking like they were Bristol, blud. And my knowledge of local slang of anywhere south of Manchester is limited, so if I notice the discrepancy, it's pretty bad.
Then there was the author who, due to the American habit of giving male Celtic names to female offspring, I had to reassign from men who can't write women, to women who can't write women. Or historical settings. Which, when both of her books that I read were first person historical krimis is a problem.
I, once again, failed to get into an Elizabeth George. I try, about once every 4 years, to read one of her books to find out what it is that people see in them. And I can't. I legitimately can't. This one wasn't so Lynley-centric, but still had Tottenham man-dem speaking like they were Bristol, blud. And my knowledge of local slang of anywhere south of Manchester is limited, so if I notice the discrepancy, it's pretty bad.
Then there was the author who, due to the American habit of giving male Celtic names to female offspring, I had to reassign from men who can't write women, to women who can't write women. Or historical settings. Which, when both of her books that I read were first person historical krimis is a problem.
