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Mar. 26th, 2012 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyHappy birthday to me. I made myself a cake yesterday:
I sat it on the table in front of me this morning while I had my breakfast. That's a bit sad, isn't it?
(If you fancy a paper cake too, you can make your own here.)
I saw a mystery novel called Sudden Death Sudoku today, which came with bonus sudoku puzzles for the reader to do. Is that a good idea? It seems to say: sure, people die doing them in the story, but you won't, we promise.
I also saw a mystery novel in which the sleuth was a small-town newspaper reporter who solves crimes in her spare time. Nothing wrong with that, and more likely than the crime-solving cake shop owner books I've seen... except this working reporter/sleuth was 92. As in, years old. And the blurb on the back suggested that she was so outraged at being removed from her newspaper, she started her own. Am I being ageist, or is that, er, unlikely?
I sat it on the table in front of me this morning while I had my breakfast. That's a bit sad, isn't it?
(If you fancy a paper cake too, you can make your own here.)
I saw a mystery novel called Sudden Death Sudoku today, which came with bonus sudoku puzzles for the reader to do. Is that a good idea? It seems to say: sure, people die doing them in the story, but you won't, we promise.
I also saw a mystery novel in which the sleuth was a small-town newspaper reporter who solves crimes in her spare time. Nothing wrong with that, and more likely than the crime-solving cake shop owner books I've seen... except this working reporter/sleuth was 92. As in, years old. And the blurb on the back suggested that she was so outraged at being removed from her newspaper, she started her own. Am I being ageist, or is that, er, unlikely?