Nina's Blog - Sunday 31st March 2024
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
Sunday 31st March 2024, 145:59
Ages ago (https://similarworlds.com/social/blogs/4896137-Ninas-Blog-Saturday-16th-December-2023) I promised @being that I would report on my reading of The Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard.
I finally remembered to do it. There was a long period when I couldn't because I mislaid the book.
Anyway. I liked it. It's fairly gentle in some ways, despite a number of murders and I felt a great deal of sympathy for the principal character, Umiko Wada.
Edit 20240403: I forgot to mention that there was one irritating feature, at least it was irritating at the beginning. Goddard has a habit of telling the reader what the characters are thinking. I'm sure other authors do too but it seemed more obtrusive than usual. To me it seems reasonable to tell the reader what the central character thinks but not all the others. We see the world essentially through Umiko Wada's eyes not those of the other characters.
Ages ago (https://similarworlds.com/social/blogs/4896137-Ninas-Blog-Saturday-16th-December-2023) I promised @being that I would report on my reading of The Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard.
I finally remembered to do it. There was a long period when I couldn't because I mislaid the book.
Anyway. I liked it. It's fairly gentle in some ways, despite a number of murders and I felt a great deal of sympathy for the principal character, Umiko Wada.
Edit 20240403: I forgot to mention that there was one irritating feature, at least it was irritating at the beginning. Goddard has a habit of telling the reader what the characters are thinking. I'm sure other authors do too but it seemed more obtrusive than usual. To me it seems reasonable to tell the reader what the central character thinks but not all the others. We see the world essentially through Umiko Wada's eyes not those of the other characters.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
I agree about the twice-yearly clock change: keep GMT (or UTC as it now is, with a tiny difference I think) all year.
A book called The Art of Invisible Detection. I could do with those skills.... I bought a book two years ago, on the strength of hearing part of it on BBC Radio Four, managed to read one chapter, never took it out of the house, and it's been invisible ever since!
A book called The Art of Invisible Detection. I could do with those skills.... I bought a book two years ago, on the strength of hearing part of it on BBC Radio Four, managed to read one chapter, never took it out of the house, and it's been invisible ever since!
22Michelle · 61-69, T
Congratulations! I'm waiting for one of my pics to be rejected because it looks like a woman in the picture. So far I seem to be fooling nobody!
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@22Michelle It only works when they can't see my face. I think it very much depends on who is checking the pictures because I have had picture that look pretty similar be accepted.