I was wondering how Sue Grafton was going to deal with this issue. The title of the book is simply ‘X’. She has the letter work overtime, though. She uses it frequently in names.
It’s actually not bad. Better than she’s done in a while.
I was wondering how Sue Grafton was going to deal with this issue. The title of the book is simply ‘X’. She has the letter work overtime, though. She uses it frequently in names.
It’s actually not bad. Better than she’s done in a while.
X IS FOR X-RAY seems like it would’ve been pretty easy.
Publisher’s blurb:
X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss.
X: The shortest entry in Webster’s Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. The most graphically dramatic letter. Notoriously tricky to pronounce: think xylophone.
X: The twenty-fourth letter in the English alphabet.
Sue Grafton’s X: Perhaps her darkest and most chilling novel, it features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this sociopath. The test is whether Kinsey can prove her case against him before she becomes his next victim.
X: awesome LA punk band from the 1970s & '80s.
“X is for Xookie
That’s good enough for me.
X is for Xookie
That’s good enough for me…”
–Xookie Monster
I say she goes with X Is For Xanthic and writes her first werewolf novel.
“His eyes… she’d never seen anything like their acidic yellow glow.”
I’d go with X is for Xenomorph.
I agree, Frank, this is the best for a while. I also kind of enjoyed the Xs appearing in the story; there were several.
It sounds good. I’m curious how her series will end. It’s been fun watching how much tech and everything has changed and she’s had to stay locked into he Milhone character and time.
Hope Sue gets cranking on Y and Z, it would be awful to be missing the last two if she is unable to do so. Though I’m sure her estate will see someone writes them…I think it would be interesting if Z had some 80’s Kinsey Millhone and it ended up with her in the 21st century, retired, and looking back on her last big case.
Drink at the bar nothing bar
anything
but the bottom step
of the ladder
it keeps getting higher
and higher
dawn comes soon enough for the working class
I also don’t think it would have been all that hard for her to keep up the pattern, but it’s pretty hard to argue with her reasoning for taking a pass – i.e., she’s the writer and she can do whatever she feels like doing.
I’ve just started and noticed that there’s a boat in a painting. It’s a** x**ebec.