How many authors do you know in Hobart?
May. 21st, 2013 02:56 pmSo I wasn't feeling to good today - you might even say I was feeling "a trifle dead". So when my eyes stopped hurting I decided to read A Trifle Dead by Livia Day. No, that line isn't exactly high wit - indicative of my state of mind. The book did however raise my state of mind and state of humour. But then it was always going to. When an author with a fine humourous touch turns her hand to a novel of food and murder it was always going to turn out well when the folk at Twelfth Planet got their hands on it.
So it was a good book and it got me through the day, but it does pose a slight problem. See, where do I shelve it? It is a problem I strike from time to time when authors stray outside their genre boundaries (think Michael Marshall Smith). Not that I object to authors crossing boundaries - I positively encourage it.
But that still leaves the shelves. All the crime/mystery stuff is on different shelves in a different room. So should this book go in the SF/F section specially set aside for Australasian authors. In particular, in the part set aside for TPP titles. Or should it go on the crime shelves between Chandler and Evanovich.
At this point a few of you are thinking that the placement is because D comes between C and E. Hah! That would be too easy.
So it was a good book and it got me through the day, but it does pose a slight problem. See, where do I shelve it? It is a problem I strike from time to time when authors stray outside their genre boundaries (think Michael Marshall Smith). Not that I object to authors crossing boundaries - I positively encourage it.
But that still leaves the shelves. All the crime/mystery stuff is on different shelves in a different room. So should this book go in the SF/F section specially set aside for Australasian authors. In particular, in the part set aside for TPP titles. Or should it go on the crime shelves between Chandler and Evanovich.
At this point a few of you are thinking that the placement is because D comes between C and E. Hah! That would be too easy.