Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?

Hedda Gabler

Annoying 9 year olds should be muuuurdered. 

GNTLGNT

...."Hello?....Is this Child Protective Services???"....

Kurben

While at the hospital i reread Christies Lord Edgware dies which is good if not great christie and a swedish crime novel called Biggest of All. A courtroom drama. Priced i saw as best crimebook of the year in sweden for about 8 years ago. Awful tripe. The only survivor of a schoolshooting (she thinks) and as she is the shooters girlfriend she is accused as accessory to murder (is that correct?). She shot the shooter before he shot her. This is written before the very real schoolshooting that occurred recently. And it takes place among rich kids. Not very well told and several of the characters were little more than names. WHY has it won so much praise?? Because it lets a schoolshooting be committed by the most popular kid in the class and son of swedens richest man? If so it is just stupid. Sure rich kids can commit crimes, of course they can but to praise a book because of it is stupid. The best thing about is the girls weak attempts to understand the legal finesses and her condescending but often a little funny nicknames for her attorneys. But otherwise? Boring. The description of the crime is in bits and pieces which might be accurate but drags the pace down to walking with a limp. Give the reader something to read which is fitting for a novel, not for a court protocol. But that idea has the author totally dismissed which result in my falling asleep several times. She obviously wants her readers to fall asleep. (with all the backstories provided it could probably be a better tv-series, decent at least, but its a bad book.

Hedda Gabler

Bev, I read your Onyx review on Amanda Knox book. 

Does she get into her odd behavior at the crime scene? I think her inappropriate actions there are what sealed her fate with the Italian people and the court. 

Hedda Gabler

I’ve got Frankie on hold. I’ve read a couple Graham norton’s and enjoyed them. 

Bev, I see you are reading it, is it good?

Hedda Gabler

I am reading Cher’s memoir.  I found this little paragraph she writes charming. I loved being a kid. 

“My parents gave me a tricycle as a gift and THAT was truly my first set of wheels. I got on the seat, looked around, looked up at my parents, and thought, Okay, I think I've learned all I can from these people. It was like, time to go. And then I pedaled around the apartment complex and didn't actually go anywhere, but I had my wheels and I felt free.”