There are so many little towns or sections. Many of them are Marie de something, Marie of some place. Or, something de Marie, some place of Marie. There was one town on the subway map that was just Madeleine. So I visited it. It was only a couple stops north of Concord, which was on a main line. When I got there, there is a Cafe de Madeleine. And across the street was this large temple. Which is called L'église de la Madeleine or La Madeleine for short. It is a church that was built for the remembrance of Marie Madeleine or Mary Magdalene in the time of Napoleon.
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
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