Thank you! I think it achieved what I hoped it would: getting me to read outside of my comfort zone.
Yeah, I mean, it's just the nature of the genre that there are police. And it's difficult for me to maintain the suspension of disbelief in the premise that police are helpful and useful to society. I had thought I'd found the perfect 'while cooking' audiobook in Maigret but I just got sort of ill with all that's going on in the US. I mean, Inspector Slack (if he were American) might push Miss Marple to the ground and let her bleed out of her ear while his colleagues watch and do nothing and 57 colleagues resign when he gets disciplined for it (what happened in Buffalo, NY recently).
I stopped with the Maigret then went back one night when I was desperate for something and there was a line that a woman who wasn't wearing a bra had breasts that were 'weary' and there was an idiot village girl who got pregnant and I shut it off for good.
I know it's a small problem to have, and it's evolution. I just don't see yet what I'm going to evolve to, if that makes sense.
I know it isn't every book. But these are books I wanted to like because people I admire like them a lot. I mean, if you rec a book about WWI and I try it and don't like it, well, I don't feel so bad because it's Your Thing and not really My Thing, but these are books that my brain feels like I Ought To Like and Don't. I suppose that's the real problem. I ought not to think I Ought To Like certain books.
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Yeah, I mean, it's just the nature of the genre that there are police. And it's difficult for me to maintain the suspension of disbelief in the premise that police are helpful and useful to society. I had thought I'd found the perfect 'while cooking' audiobook in Maigret but I just got sort of ill with all that's going on in the US. I mean, Inspector Slack (if he were American) might push Miss Marple to the ground and let her bleed out of her ear while his colleagues watch and do nothing and 57 colleagues resign when he gets disciplined for it (what happened in Buffalo, NY recently).
I stopped with the Maigret then went back one night when I was desperate for something and there was a line that a woman who wasn't wearing a bra had breasts that were 'weary' and there was an idiot village girl who got pregnant and I shut it off for good.
I know it's a small problem to have, and it's evolution. I just don't see yet what I'm going to evolve to, if that makes sense.
I know it isn't every book. But these are books I wanted to like because people I admire like them a lot. I mean, if you rec a book about WWI and I try it and don't like it, well, I don't feel so bad because it's Your Thing and not really My Thing, but these are books that my brain feels like I Ought To Like and Don't. I suppose that's the real problem. I ought not to think I Ought To Like certain books.