5 thoughts on “Oh Brave New World”

  1. Neat stuff! And, your Facebook site prompted my very first (and probably last!) Facebook comment.

    btw – Last weekend I finished What the Dead Know, and of course enjoyed it very much. I WILL say – I was ready to be mad, somewhere around page 210, when a twist – what seemed like a HUGE thing at the time – occurred…but I needn’t have feared.

  3. True enough; I should never have doubted you.

    After WTDK, I pondered just what about the various Lippman books draw me; they are pretty much the only fiction books that I actively seek out.

    One big common thread in the LL books, that always appeals to me, is that they contain intelligent women who can (and do) make the most of their lot in life; there’s an earthy scrappiness amongst the women in the books that make them especially compelling. These women are like the ones I know, with mortgages and tradeoffs and frictions and challenges.

    Indeed, I’ve only read one Tess book (BB), and then the stand-alones LS, TTPT, WTDK, and HKH…but one assumes that scrappy Tess embodies these same strengths, in books around her.

    Happily, I have more to discover about Tess, but for now I’m 100 pages into Burlingame’s 1,800 page opus about Lincoln, so at my rate – that’s it for 2009….but I have about 10 things to put onto this year’s Christmas wish-list!

    PS – and I really, really liked seeing Lenhardt and (the well-named) Infante and Gloria…and Nancy – the woman who chooses NOT to be a field person, but instead an office person. But especially Lenhardt…which reminds me that another bonus in LL books is the word play, such as when Lenhardt gets to point out that Infante has egg on his face. Old saws get examined with some regularity in the various LL books I’ve enjoyed

  5. Aha-found it! Maybe the problem was that before I was looking under “People” instead of “Pages.” Duh.

    Anyway, I became a fan (and noticed yet again that Baltimore truly is a small town in that my husband’s long ago ex-girlfriend is also a fan).

    (But I still can’t find the MR. Peanut etc. pics.)

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