"Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela Choi. I think limecello recommended this on Twitter. Or maybe someone else?"
Heheh. Yeah, it was probably limecello. Avidbookreader mentioned HKMD to me, which got me talking about trying to buy HKMD (due to geographical restrictions), prompting SarahTanner and Limecello to ask who wrote HKMD. Once we all figured out how to get our mitts on a copy, we bought copies. I think limecello actually downloaded a sample first and she liked it enough to buy a copy. It was a long discussion if I remember right.
I have mixed feelings about Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. On one hand it tried too hard and on the other, it's typical of an English village novel. Even with the hero being crotchety (a classic or stereotypical trait in an Englishman).
It's an old and still popular genre in the UK. Popular authors include Mary Pearce, E.F. Benson, Barbara Pym (favourite), Rebecca Shaw, H.E. Bates, Miriam Wakerly, Joanna Trollope, Angela Thirkell (also a favourite) and more. The Queen of all is, IMO, Miss Read; even though I'm not that keen on her novels.
The best known authors, though, would be Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, E.M. Forster, Laurie Lee and D.H. Lawrence. There are more, but my brain is flatlining at the moment.
So yeah, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand isn't that exceptional to me. I suspect the DA author and others aren't familiar with the genre, hence the positive reaction? Maybe I'm wrong.
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Date: 2011-02-08 12:48 pm (UTC)Heheh. Yeah, it was probably limecello. Avidbookreader mentioned HKMD to me, which got me talking about trying to buy HKMD (due to geographical restrictions), prompting SarahTanner and Limecello to ask who wrote HKMD. Once we all figured out how to get our mitts on a copy, we bought copies. I think limecello actually downloaded a sample first and she liked it enough to buy a copy. It was a long discussion if I remember right.
I have mixed feelings about Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. On one hand it tried too hard and on the other, it's typical of an English village novel. Even with the hero being crotchety (a classic or stereotypical trait in an Englishman).
It's an old and still popular genre in the UK. Popular authors include Mary Pearce, E.F. Benson, Barbara Pym (favourite), Rebecca Shaw, H.E. Bates, Miriam Wakerly, Joanna Trollope, Angela Thirkell (also a favourite) and more. The Queen of all is, IMO, Miss Read; even though I'm not that keen on her novels.
The best known authors, though, would be Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, E.M. Forster, Laurie Lee and D.H. Lawrence. There are more, but my brain is flatlining at the moment.
So yeah, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand isn't that exceptional to me. I suspect the DA author and others aren't familiar with the genre, hence the positive reaction? Maybe I'm wrong.
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