Tag Archives: Ruth Rendell

Vacation Reading

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

Read anything good on vacation? We haven’t even decided where we’re going this year—Grand Tetons? Hawaii? Yosemite? Stinson Beach?—and already I’m answering the question. You see, as soon as I start thinking about where, I start considering what books to … Continue reading →

Posted in reading | Tagged Adam Gopnik, Big Island, Danielle Steel, Donna Leon, Grand Canyon, Grand Tetons, Hawaii, Homer, Jane Eyre, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lake Tahoe, Lindsey Crittenden, Marilyn French, Maui, mystery novels, New Yorker, novels, Odyssey, Rome, Ruth Rendell, Sea Ranch, Stinson Beach, The Exorcist, The Professor and the Madman, The Women's Room, vacation, vacation reading, VRBO, Yosemite | 4 Comments

Mystery Surprise

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

I’ve never much liked mystery novels. I get either helplessly confused by the third chapter (Smiley’s People) or impatient that no one else figured out early on that of course the wife did it (Presumed Innocent). In fourth and fifth … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, reading | Tagged Barbara Vine, Crown Publishing Group, Death and Judgement, Donna Leon, Duplicate Keys, Guido Brunetti, Henry James, henry james turn of the screw, Jane Smiley, key to rebecca, keys to the street, Lindsey Crittenden, mysteries, mystery novels, mystery writers, Nancy Drew, Patricia Highsmith, Patrick McGrath, plot, precise characterizations, Presumed Innocent, Ruth Rendell, Smiley's People, Spider, The Crocodile Bird, The Key to Rebecca, The Keys to the Street, the Romanovs, The Russia House, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Turn of the Screw, The Water's Lovely, unreliable narrator, Venice, Winston Churchill | 2 Comments

Listening Anew

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Lindsey Crittenden

In found pockets of spare time – the five minutes before needing to leave to make an appointment; the fifteen minutes between emails – I’ve been updating my list of books on this blog. I’m not sure too many readers … Continue reading →

Posted in faith, prayer, reading, spirituality, Uncategorized | Tagged " good ambiguity, "Because the Night, Austerlitz, Electric Ladlyland, gentle revolutionary, Godmother of Punk, Golden Gate Park, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Just Kids, Lindsey Crittenden, Marie Antoinette, New York City, Patti Smith, People, Ploughshares, Ramones, Ruth Rendell, Sam Shepard, Sea Ranch, St Andrews, St Francis of Assisi, The Water Will Hold You, Virginia Center for Creative Arts | Comments Off

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