Blades upon Books - Traditionals

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It is kind of blurry, but I think this begins with “A l’aide d’un bon canif…”, so it seems having a knife on you was essential if you wanted to read comics…

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You have "hawk" eyes! 👍

The booklet is #8cm high. (not my picture)
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It has been recently relaunched, there's even a video (ah! progress!)
 
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Another vacation read from mid-August, one of the author's Virgil Flowers mysteries. I find all of the novels featuring Virgil to be very entertaining, and when I recently re-read this one, I decided it's probably my favorite.
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5K Qs said:
Another vacation read from mid-August, one of the author's Virgil Flowers mysteries. I find all of the novels featuring Virgil to be very entertaining, and when I recently re-read this one, I decided it's probably my favorite.
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Me too. I think I like the Virgil Flowers novels better than the Lucas Davenport novels. They lean to the quirky side.
 
mbkr said:
Me too. I think I like the Virgil Flowers novels better than the Lucas Davenport novels. They lean to the quirky side.
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I agree, Mike. Virgil is definitely more laid-back than Davenport is, and Virgil takes some very nontraditional "investigative approaches" that definitely fit your "quirky" description. And even though I've spent the majority of my life living in cities, my formative years were on a farm in the country, and I relate more to the the rural and small town settings of the Flowers novels than to the more urban settings of many Davenport novels. I'd also sometimes get annoyed, especially when Davenport was with Minneapolis police department or with state BCA, that Davenport and his "gang" of cops were not very different from the bad guys they were after, other than Davenport etc had badges.

But I've read and enjoyed every novel in each series. I even read a novel last month featuring Davenport's adopted daughter Letty as some US senator's liaison with Homeland Security; it was OK, but not great IMHO.

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5K Qs said:
I agree, Mike. Virgil is definitely more laid-back than Davenport is, and Virgil takes some very nontraditional "investigative approaches" that definitely fit your "quirky" description. And even though I've spent the majority of my life living in cities, my formative years were on a farm in the country, and I relate more to the the rural and small town settings of the Flowers novels than to the more urban settings of many Davenport novels. I'd also sometimes get annoyed, especially when Davenport was with Minneapolis police department or with state BCA, that Davenport and his "gang" of cops were not very different from the bad guys they were after, other than Davenport etc had badges.

But I've read and enjoyed every novel in each series. I even read a novel last month featuring Davenport's adopted daughter Letty as some US senator's liaison with Homeland Security; it was OK, but not great IMHO.

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I was aware that Sandford had written one with Letty as the protagonist, but I haven't seen it yet. I;ve read all of Sandford's novels, including the "young adult" ones with Michelle Cook (I enjoyed them quite a bit and I haven't been a "young adult" in a long, long time), except the newest ones. I have "Masked Prey" sitting here waiting for the mood to be right.
 
mbkr said:
I was aware that Sandford had written one with Letty as the protagonist, but I haven't seen it yet. I;ve read all of Sandford's novels, including the "young adult" ones with Michelle Cook (I enjoyed them quite a bit and I haven't been a "young adult" in a long, long time), except the newest ones. I have "Masked Prey" sitting here waiting for the mood to be right.
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Thanks for your opinion on Sanford's "young adult" novels, Mike. :thumbsup::cool: I've never read any of them (or even seen actual copies, but they'd probably be shelved in the "YAF" section of my local public library branch, where I almost never browse), but it sounds like I should try them.
Sometime in the past year I read a Sandford novel (Ocean Prey??) that had Davenport working a case in the first half of the book, and then Virgil and Davenport's female US Marshall partner worked the case undercover (and underwater) for the second half of the book. It was pretty good, but a different style than I was used to.

I read Masked Prey almost exactly 2 years ago and thought Davenport was encountering a lot of very strange people in the story, mostly neo-fascists IIRC. I should probably read it again sometime to see if it seems less "strange" after what's gone on in American politics over the past couple of years.

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I read Streets of Laredo, a sequel to Lonesome Dove, earlier this month. I think it's darker and more violent than the original book, and it took some getting used to the fact that many characters from the original sort of arbitrarily disappeared (or made brief cameo appearances) in the sequel. But given my age and stage of life, I really liked the fact that a major theme of the book was Capt. Call reflecting on and trying to come to terms with the frustrations of aging and losing competence and even having to construct a new self-identity. Secondarily, it was enjoyable to see pocket knives show up throughout the book, and by the end of the book, Call was making a living as a tool sharpener. (If the author did any research that indicates that tool sharpener was a common "profession" near the change from 19th to 20th century, that would call into question the "wisdom" we often read on BF that "in the old days" EVERYONE was capable of sharpening their knives and other edged tools.)
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