I managed to get out of bed earlier this morning. I took a few magical photos while the smog was still fresh.
This is the church, the tourist magnet of Sofia. It shines.
A hidden garden behind Tzum. The building on the left was the shopping mall of the communism period. You couldn’t do much shopping in there before 1989 but it was a good walking destination. You could watch things that you’d never buy.
Very different protests, mostly against the Pig and the Pumpkin, but also the Euro. The migration to the Euro is glitching right now. I hope it goes well.
Detective Maud O’Connor is badass. She solves cases with the ease of a hot knife slicing through butter. The problem is that if she were only that good, the book would have no reason to be so long. It wouldn’t go beyond 100–150 pages. So if you were the writer, what would you put in the remaining 300-350 pages?
The first novel from the series started with hundreds of pages of detailing the victim’s circumstances. Wasn’t great. In this one, we get a another storyline, following a woman who becomes an indirect victim of the crime. She tries to help but is treated as crazy by everyone.
The story is strong. However, I can’t honestly give it five stars. The secondary storyline ends up carrying too much weight. The book is supposedly about Detective Maud O’Connor taking down the bad guys. In reality, it’s about Nancy, cooking in her own small, private hell. Hell constructed by her family and friends. Perhaps the book should have been called Is Nancy Crazy? Of course, that’s on purpose. The novel raises important questions about domestic abuse and involuntary psychiatric treatment. I’m sure the 300 pages, dedicated to Nancy, share the same purpose with John Grisham’s writing about unfair death sentences.
Overall, the book has well-developed characters, a solid plot, and a difficult-to-predict ending. I would definitely read the sequel, if there is one. It is not the easiest read, at least not until Maud O’Connor starts slicing the butter.
That’s near the lunch place where I have lunch a few times/week. They were about to start a fight. I went to the food stand. Waited for 5-10 minutes and got my lunch. They were still about to start a fight. Cat business.
After featuring graffiti with USA’94, here’s a book about USA’94, published about a week ago. It’s size A4 and lets you replay the football world cup from 1994. It looks very complicated to read. I’m not sure if I can make it despite watching the championship and knowing roughly what happened. It has 500 episodes and about half-a-book of rules about what to do with these 500 episodes.
I find it cool that people can come up with such ideas, publish them, and potentially even find someone to read them.
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