Lose Ends

“Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and implied there were endings when in reality there were no ending, everything just went on and on and on.” Truth.

13.13 Case Histories

It feels lately like every time I tidy up one lose end at least ten more unravel, and this month the ends are out of control!  I can’t even focus my mind on reading a book, which kind of made Case Histories perfect. 

At the center of the plot is Jackson Brodie, a PI and father who is hired by various people to solve their various mysteries.  But it is much more complicated than that because all the stories over lap and intertwine is both insignificant and significant ways.  But really each story is about family, and how they look like one thing from the outside but are on the inside very different, much like the mysteries being investigated.  I have seen Atkinson’s name a lot in the book press lately and I can see why people read her books.  She is a true storyteller, but I am not sure she is a great mystery writer.  The cases are all solved off screen leaving very little for the reader to play with and so I felt less invested in the outcomes.  There are also point of view and time shifts that I found a bit jarring, but overall Brodie is a character that I would like to spend more time with since he seems to be the only one with more lose ends to tie up than me.

**Let's be honest, this is a terrible post - but I swear to you I cannot get my mind to focus.  I am leaving tomorrow for a ten day trip overseas and I haven't packed, and when we come back we need to deal with possibly moving to one place, or definitely moving to another when, truth be told, all I want to do is stay still.