and don't encounter it in less cozy mysteries by female authors
Not even the cozies are quite this... itsty-poo, usually. The sentences in question:
"Sophie went into her dressing room and ran a brush through her hair, renewed her rust-colored lip blush, then ran down the stairs before the chiming doorbell drove her mad."
and
"'Tuck that wool throw about your knees. You're shivering like an aspen leaf.' Meg complied by pulling a mauve mohair throw around her legs."
For some reason, the phrase about lip blush and "mauve mohair" are just pissing me off. Why? Who cares? There's no earthly importance to these details! (Not to mention the redundancy of the second sample.)
I like crazy-character cozies and I like society novels, but so far, this is the worst of both worlds.
I've read historical mysteries that don't hammer us too badly with the details. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Murder had a relatively soft touch even when explaining some of the more fiddly bits of life in the past. It's just that in this case, instead of getting into the character, I'm thinking "just answer the damn doorbell, lady!"
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Date: 2004-10-05 09:26 am (UTC)Not even the cozies are quite this... itsty-poo, usually. The sentences in question:
"Sophie went into her dressing room and ran a brush through her hair, renewed her rust-colored lip blush, then ran down the stairs before the chiming doorbell drove her mad."
and
"'Tuck that wool throw about your knees. You're shivering like an aspen leaf.' Meg complied by pulling a mauve mohair throw around her legs."
For some reason, the phrase about lip blush and "mauve mohair" are just pissing me off. Why? Who cares? There's no earthly importance to these details! (Not to mention the redundancy of the second sample.)
I like crazy-character cozies and I like society novels, but so far, this is the worst of both worlds.
I've read historical mysteries that don't hammer us too badly with the details. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Murder had a relatively soft touch even when explaining some of the more fiddly bits of life in the past. It's just that in this case, instead of getting into the character, I'm thinking "just answer the damn doorbell, lady!"