Happy New Year! Both books sounds interesting and all of a sudden I wish the holidays (aka reading time) hadn't ended already. What I love about your newsletter is that whenever I feel like getting a new book I can just browse through your many posts for an endless source of good titles. Thank you!
Oh, thanks for two more book recommendations that I now want to read (or listen to!). I swear you’re creating my TBR list, Marg!
My mom often used the expression “chalk and cheese” to describe two people that were as different as, well, chalk and cheese. It always made perfect sense to me. Hoi polloi not so much, though I love the sound of it. I thought it sounded vaguely Yiddish, but it turns out it’s Greek for “the people” and has taken on a negative connotation in English as a term for the masses (as in the rabble-rousing types).
I also recommended MY MURDER in our Present Tense newsletter so I can jump on the bandwagon and hope you saw it mentioned there, Marg! (Even if you didn't.) I think a lot of us were talking it up early in the year, and for good reason. It is a very fresh take on the domestic thriller. I will look for STANDARD DEVIATION--thanks for including some dialogue to provide us a sense of the humor/voice. I need more witty novels in my life!
Happy New Year! Both books sounds interesting and all of a sudden I wish the holidays (aka reading time) hadn't ended already. What I love about your newsletter is that whenever I feel like getting a new book I can just browse through your many posts for an endless source of good titles. Thank you!
Oh, thanks for two more book recommendations that I now want to read (or listen to!). I swear you’re creating my TBR list, Marg!
My mom often used the expression “chalk and cheese” to describe two people that were as different as, well, chalk and cheese. It always made perfect sense to me. Hoi polloi not so much, though I love the sound of it. I thought it sounded vaguely Yiddish, but it turns out it’s Greek for “the people” and has taken on a negative connotation in English as a term for the masses (as in the rabble-rousing types).
Also, I thought the Hoi Pollloi were rich people. Got that from my mother!,
I’m loving Standard Deviation. I love all the characters. Such astute observations about people and what they say and what they think.
I also recommended MY MURDER in our Present Tense newsletter so I can jump on the bandwagon and hope you saw it mentioned there, Marg! (Even if you didn't.) I think a lot of us were talking it up early in the year, and for good reason. It is a very fresh take on the domestic thriller. I will look for STANDARD DEVIATION--thanks for including some dialogue to provide us a sense of the humor/voice. I need more witty novels in my life!
Was just blown away by MY MURDER.
P.S. I have never understood why people say "chalk and cheese" when they mean two very different things!