After doing a bit of research on other book review blogs, I cleaned up the tags system and added a "file by label" system (over there to your right.) This way, dear reader, if you're interested in reading my grumps just in a certain genre, it's easy to find. Perhaps in time I'll add a "file by star rating" list as well.
While reassigning labels to these book grumps, I got stuck on how many of them can be called "mysteries." Even without the trappings of trench coats and forensic kits (or, depending on your taste in mysteries,
cats), whodunits are found in absolutely every genre.
I now propose my own version of the "
only [n] plots in the world" theory: there are three.
- Get the thing
- Defeat the thing
- Find out who did the thing
For fairness' sake, I'm only going to use the "mystery" tag if the book specifically describes itself as such.
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