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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 30, 2017, 09:58:19 am ---I should have spent the weekend catching up on my New Yorkers, but I didn't feel like it, so instead I spent the weekend finishing up one Tony Hillerman Navajo murder mystery and reading an entire Margaret Cole Arapaho murder mystery.
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I think you could safely change that "should" to a "could." There's no "should" in reading choices (in most cases), and the New Yorker is completely optional.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 31, 2017, 08:52:58 am ---I think you could safely change that "should" to a "could." There's no "should" in reading choices (in most cases), and the New Yorker is completely optional.
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Thanks. I just get so daunted when I see the magazines pile up, and lately I haven't had as much time to read at lunch as I usually do.
But the late Tony Hillerman and Margaret Coel tell good stories. Hillerman was so precise in locations that you could almost follow along with a Google map. Coel's stories have the added pleasure of taking place in territory that I've visited--Lander, Riverton, and along the Wind River Mountains.
Last year I read a Longmire novella by Craig Johnson that he set in the same region of Wyoming as Coel's novels. At one point he has Sheriff Longmire and his friend Henry Standing Bear talk to the "red-haird priest" at St. Francis Mission. That would be Margaret Coel's main character, Father John Aloysius O'Malley, an Irish Jesuit from Boston who is the pastor at the mission. I wrote to Johnson to ask if that was "a tip of the hat" to Margaret Coel, and he replied that indeed it was.
Front-Ranger:
You're in luck, Jeff. The latest issue is the fiction issue and it spans two weeks, so you have time to catch up.
Apparently, I missed the review of "Anne With an E" which was in the May 11 issue.
There is quite a big controversy about this Netflix series. I haven't seen the review, the series, or even read the book Anne of Green Gables, but I love a good literary controversy!! Is there anyone out there who knows more about this?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 01, 2017, 09:57:15 am ---Apparently, I missed the review of "Anne With an E" which was in the May 11 issue.
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I guess I missed it, too. I have no memory of it.
Edit to Add:
Maybe that was just on the Web site? There was no "May 11" issue. The cover dates were May 8 and May 15. Neither had anything about Anne of Green Gables. I just checked the TOCs.
Front-Ranger:
Well, that explains why we have no memory of it!!
Speaking of The NY, there was a cartoon in the latest issue that made me laugh out loud! It was on page 85. But maybe, it's a chick thing.
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