Reading for pleasure…

[SimonDoom]

I just finished my first Agatha Christie novel, Murder on the Orient Express, and I'm about to start Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. I'm slowly reading American Prometheus, the biography of Oppenheimer.

 

[MillieDynamite]

No matter who you thought done it, you were almost without exception, right. Opp's spoiler alert.

I just finished my first Agatha Christie novel, Murder on the Orient Express, and I'm about to start Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. I'm slowly reading American Prometheus, the biography of Oppenheimer.

 

[SimonDoom]

No matter who you thought done it, you were almost without exception, right. Opp's spoiler alert.

Shhhhhh!

I don't know if anyone has done this (and if someone here knows of such a case, please let me know), but a great idea for a detective whodunit would be a story where it's revealed at the end that the detective is the killer.

 

[Euphony]

Shhhhhh!

I don't know if anyone has done this (and if someone here knows of such a case, please let me know), but a great idea for a detective whodunit would be a story where it's revealed at the end that the detective is the killer.

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IYKYK

 

[MillieDynamite]

Been done, read it, figured it out, and loved it. Think forty years down the road from the story I was responding to. Opps another spolier.

Shhhhhh!

I don't know if anyone has done this (and if someone here knows of such a case, please let me know), but a great idea for a detective whodunit would be a story where it's revealed at the end that the detective is the killer.

 

[mirafrida]

I often enjoy reading my stories, but it can take MANY months before it is possible to do so without the experience being ruined by the critical eye, editorial nitpick, and general fatigue. Even then, I need to be in a particular frame of mind to approach it as a reader, rather than as someone who has a complicated relationship with the work's creation and reception...

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm slowly reading American Prometheus, the biography of Oppenheimer.

What's it like?

 

[HordHolm]

I’m reading a biography of Mary Anning

Is it any good? I'm glad that many of the women who drove science forward back in the day are finally getting recognised/appreciated - it gives me something to point out for my daughter, rather than 'maybe you'd like to be a flight attendant' (no shade on them, who do a rough job for little/no thanks).

 

[HordHolm]

One of the pleasures of having old-fashioned physical books on shelves is the ease of browsing back through stuff and have something catch the eye years after it being read the first time. The one I'm on now is by an anthropologist called Piers Vitebsky who spent years amongst the reindeer herders of Siberia. It's called Reindeer People and I highly recommend it.

 

[SimonDoom]

What's it like?

Long.

It's well-written and meticulously detailed. If you like this sort of thing, you will like this. The subject matter is interesting: both the development of the bomb and the Cold War politics that enveloped Oppenheimer after the war. It won the Pulitzer Prize, and I can see why.

By the way, is there an Australian equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize? If so, what is it?

 

[CurvySassyAJ]

Once I've got some distance from the writing, it's nice to go back and be like, "oh yeah, i do actually like this one..."

I should do that and see if I like my stories now or will I cringe at my typos and mistakes.

And Emily, I have been known to have written my main characters name as one from a previous story. Thank goodness a beta reader caught it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Is it any good? I'm glad that many of the women who drove science forward back in the day are finally getting recognised/appreciated - it gives me something to point out for my daughter, rather than 'maybe you'd like to be a flight attendant' (no shade on them, who do a rough job for little/no thanks).

It’s this - I was given a physical copy. It’s out of print I believe:

https://www.amazon.com/Fossil-Hunter-Times-Anning-1799-1848/dp/1930901550/

It’s very meticulous. I like meticulous.

Em

 

[ElectricBlue]

Long.

It's well-written and meticulously detailed. If you like this sort of thing, you will like this. The subject matter is interesting: both the development of the bomb and the Cold War politics that enveloped Oppenheimer after the war. It won the Pulitzer Prize, and I can see why.

By the way, is there an Australian equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize? If so, what is it?

Ta.

No, there's not. Our best known literary award is probably the Miles Franklin, which is for fiction.

I just wiki'd Australian literary prizes - there's a long list, but only a few I recognised, mostly newspaper annual prizes.