"Siobhán O’Sullivan..." stop right there! I don't need to read any further to know this is yet another condescending Irish story. bring on the leprechauns and start the shillelagh-shallying! Only a quarter of the top twenty Irish names begin with the O'prefix! There's only one O'name in the top five, yet every single Irish story by US authors is uninventively and unimaginatively is larded with them! This author is an American who lives in Chicago, BTW. Yawn.
Showing posts with label Carlene O'Connor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carlene O'Connor. Show all posts
Friday, September 10, 2021
Monday, September 6, 2021
Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O'Connor
Another 'Irish' book by another O'Connor who again isn't Irish. She hails from Chicago. It was really the 'quaint' that got me on this description: "Murder turns a quaint town on its head when Siobhán O'Sullivan stumbles upon a well-dressed corpse - seated at a table in her family's bistro!" The quaint says to me that this will be yet another condescending look at the Irish. Maybe it won't be, but I lost all faith in it from that alone. The title doesn't help, and this description: "If Janet Evanovich and Maeve Binchy wrote a book together, Murder in an Irish Village would be the result" really turned me off because I'm not a fan of either of those authors and even were I, I wouldn't trust that this author could emulate either of them much less both together. So essentially, the description failed to do its job - again!
Saturday, September 4, 2021
Murder at an Irish Bookshop by Carlene O'Connor
Check this out! It's got murder, Irish, and a bookshop in it! That's got to be a trifecta that's close to perfection doesn't it? "When the body of a controversial writer is found within the stacks of her local bookstore, Siobhán will need to take a page out of her favorite mystery novel to solve the case" Why? Are the local cops fuck-ups? I do love the green-painted bookstore with shamrocks hanging down. How charmingly original! One question: could you be any more fucking condescending? Where's the leprechaun? The author hails from Chicago BTW, not Poblacht na hÉireann.
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