Mark Hall asked about the article. The setup is too facile,
and I wished he'd had put a couple of other authors in the
space he wasted on it.
I'm not familiar with Bayo Ojikutu or
Ernest Hill.
I intended to try Steven Torres
because Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans are rare in crime
fiction and they're very different from other Hispanics in
that they're Americans, which presents unique possibilities
and problems. I never did because the reviews of the first in
the series suggested there wasn't much of anything Puerto
Rican about the book. I'd appreciate comments by anyone who
has read it.
I've read a Barbara Neely and found
it too cozy for my tastes.
I read Solomon Jones's "Pipe Dreams."
The dialogue and goings-on appear to me to be genuine
Philadelphia on crack, and there's an actual exciting plot.
However, some copyeditor like me (or maybe Jones's internal
copyeditor) has parsed the rest of the writing into overly
proper grammar. I'll get the next book.
I'm not familiar with Kenji Jasper or
Nichelle D. Tramble. (I think I might have a Tramble
somewhere in TBR or a shopping cart.)
This is nice publicity for Gar
Anthony Haywood and an accurate description, but that whole
series is out of print. He's now writing a new series as Ray
Shannon, and that information would certainly be more helpful
to the reader.
I earned an A in Latin American
history, and I needed just about everything I learned in it
about Mexico to be able to follow the Paco Ignacio Taibo II I
read. They're good but hard work.
Joy
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