Invalides, France 9 November 2019

If there was any railway station that cause me grief, it was Invalides. I had bought day passes at Nord for 10 Euro each day. But for some reason I couldn’t exit with the ticket I had. I went to customer service by a gate. I explained the situation. Told the guy I wanted to get back to Meudon. I showed him the ticket. He pointed to the gate, as he did so, the gate opened for me, he told me which line I wanted. Oh, if it were that easy the following day.

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18 November 2020

Song mood: Mysterious Ways by U2. Currently I’m listening to The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan. I’ve listened to a couple of novellas that she wrote where her detective Cormac Reilly briefly shows up in and liked them. This is the first book with her star detective. Between McTiernan and Trevor on who writes better suspense, I would say hands down McTiernan. A person who writes mysteries as a genre follow a set of conventions so that the reader isn’t in a state of confusion. One great example is putting dates before each section or series of sections. Literary writers don’t follow conventions and the confusion at times come from the writing. Where I say, let the characters mislead the reader not the writing itself. I am enjoying The Ruin . It’s nice to get back to a solid mystery. I continue to walk at the lake. Although, it’s a modified path where I get around 2.5 miles instead 4 miles. I still need to figure out what to do for exercise in the winter. I want to get a rowing m

30 August 2020

Song mood: In Too Deep by Genesis. It’s been an Inspector Morse weekend. I’m halfway through the original series. I think I came upon an understanding. If the show follows the book closely, it will say based on the book. After the second season, the shows stopped following the books closely and then it says based off the characters. Some of them say based off an idea by the author, which would indicate that the author collaborated with the producers for the screenplay. The other thing that I realized is that if they are going to follow the series, Chief Inspector Thursday won’t be in the new show for much longer. Which this last season hinted at. I expect to work on my own mystery this week. It happens in Sandy, England. My Inspector Trevor is surnamed after the Irish author, William Trevor. Trevor is one of the biggest names in literature. Or he was when I attended college for Creative Writing. I’ve read a few of his short stories. I think I should listen to a fe

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