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Click on my PROFILE for a bit about me — my name's Skye McLaughlin and I live in the San Francisco Bay Area (East Bay) with three cats and (surprise LOL) definitely not enough bookshelves LOL. I'm a huge fan of anything British, so imagine my delight to learn that this is forum is hosted in Britain!
My taste crosses over into both fiction and non-fiction in Historical Mysteries & Crime (eg. Jack the Ripper), circa 1500-1899 followed closely by Fantasy Science Fiction. I'm writing a Fantasy epic right now, but it will be some years before the first volume (of an anticipated 10) is completed because I'm still storyboarding it.
Right now I'm (finishing) REGINALD HILL's Dalziel & Pascoe series — his most recent work GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT. Hill was something of a departure for me — normally I don't pick up contemporary police procedurals but I saw DEATH'S JEST BOOK in the library, and — under the impression that it was a historical mystery — checked it out. Pascoe, Pascoe . . . why do I seem to recall seeing a BBC Mystery series with these characters? I kept asking myself as I got into the book. By the time it dawned on me that, yes, it was that Dalziel & Pascoe, I was just FLABBERGASTED at how utterly BRILLIANT Reginald Hill's writing is!!! OMG I am just hooked! I researched the entire series, and over a period of about 6 weeks read every single one in chronological order. I only have one regret: I wish I had put a Post-It Note on every page where his writing contains yet another taste of his sly wit. His writing is so damned good it actually depresses me, because I know I could never write that well.
Oh — and if you plan on reading Hill, keep a Dictionary handy LOL. This man will single-handedly expand your vocabulary by a minimum of 10 words per novel on average. He is a treasure.
Skye
My taste crosses over into both fiction and non-fiction in Historical Mysteries & Crime (eg. Jack the Ripper), circa 1500-1899 followed closely by Fantasy Science Fiction. I'm writing a Fantasy epic right now, but it will be some years before the first volume (of an anticipated 10) is completed because I'm still storyboarding it.
Right now I'm (finishing) REGINALD HILL's Dalziel & Pascoe series — his most recent work GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT. Hill was something of a departure for me — normally I don't pick up contemporary police procedurals but I saw DEATH'S JEST BOOK in the library, and — under the impression that it was a historical mystery — checked it out. Pascoe, Pascoe . . . why do I seem to recall seeing a BBC Mystery series with these characters? I kept asking myself as I got into the book. By the time it dawned on me that, yes, it was that Dalziel & Pascoe, I was just FLABBERGASTED at how utterly BRILLIANT Reginald Hill's writing is!!! OMG I am just hooked! I researched the entire series, and over a period of about 6 weeks read every single one in chronological order. I only have one regret: I wish I had put a Post-It Note on every page where his writing contains yet another taste of his sly wit. His writing is so damned good it actually depresses me, because I know I could never write that well.
Oh — and if you plan on reading Hill, keep a Dictionary handy LOL. This man will single-handedly expand your vocabulary by a minimum of 10 words per novel on average. He is a treasure.
Skye
