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Ladataan... Miss Me When I'm GoneTekijä: Emily Arsenault
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I'm finding that when I read a book on my (recently gifted to me) e-reader, I have a harder time writing reviews. I have to rely on my memory more, as I have not mastered highlighting (both remembering to do it, and then figuring out how to recall it). Not a pretty process. I'm drawn to these "Story within a story" books, and this one had the added benefit of being a book within a book, too, with not one, but two deaths to be investigated, and a whole lot of country music and lore to accompany it. I'm rounding the star review up to a 4, because I think the book suffered my learning curve on the e-reader. This is the second book of Emily Aersenault's Which I have read, though I didn't remember til just a moment ago when I looked back on my reading list. As I enjoyed the first one, which I believe was her first book, too, I've put in a library request for another of her novels. Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten. In "Miss Me When I'm Gone" by Emily Arsenault, Jamie finds out that she her friend Gretchen has died on the steps of the library, and is asked by her mother to put together the book Gretchen was currently working on. But when Jamie acts as her literary executioner, she realizes that the book Gretchen was supposed to be writing, was in fact not about the subject she was supposed to be writing about! Instead of being about country singers, her book happened to be about her past, her mother - to be exact."Miss Me When I'm Gone" is a wonderful mystery, but the most interesting aspect of it is being able to understand Gretchen through the writings she has left behind. But did her research for her book lead her to her untimely death...and is Jamie now in the same danger, going over the same discoveries, as her? Although I didn't care to read about Gretchen's parts of the books about Tammy Wynette (well, not always - some were insightful) - overall, I loved this entire book, and the way that it unfolded. I loved the mystery of it all, but also the aspect of friendship and self-discovery. I would definitely recommend this book. Despite its workmanlike writing and story interspersed with musings on various country stars, I found this sort of negligible. Nothing really stands out about it aside from the fictional memoir entries which are wonderful. I wish Ms. Arsenault had just written that. I think this is too much on the women's fiction/chick lit side of things for me and there were too many elements in the story that were unnecessary add-ons - like a woman accessorizing her big outfit and ruining it with too much of the wrong kind of jewelry. A decent read, but not a great one. In MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE by Emily Arsenault, Gretchen, a bestselling author of a book about female country music singers, has died on the library steps after a book event there. Her mother has asked Jamie, Gretchen's friend, to put together Gretchen's notes for the next book she was writing, this time about male country singers, and prepare it for publication. That is the setup for the rest of the story, Jamie's work as Gretchen's literary executor. The chapters in this book are written variously as ***Gretchen's notes for the new book (which is not about male country singers anymore but about Shelly, Gretchen's biological mother) ***Excerpts from Gretchen's bestselling book (mostly concentrating on the sad life of Tammy Wynette) ***Jamie's first-person account of her research into what Gretchen meant to write (which turns out to be a murder investigation of Shelly's death) Jamie's discoveries through her interviews with people who Gretchen interviewed lead to another mystery, this one about Gretchen's own death. Had she discovered the identity of Shelly's murderer? Now Jamie, too, is making that same discovery. Is she putting herself in the same peril that Gretchen did? Unfortunately for the reader, the chapters from Gretchen's already-published book seem useless as more than padding. I suppose they could be meant to show Gretchen's obsession with Tammy Wynette. Maybe Gretchen thought Shelly felt the same type of pain in her life, or maybe some songs reflected Gretchen's own life. I never did figure out Arsenault's purpose. Whatever her reason for including these excerpts, they interrupted the story. I found the first half of MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE a little too "cozy mysteryish," too simple, too easy reading. It gets better later. But I still had a problem: its reading level seemed a little too young adult. Even the book's cover looks YA. But it's not a YA book; no character in this book is under 30. I've attempted to write a review with no spoilers. And I thank Audra of Unabridged Chick (www.unabridgedchick.com) for this book giveaway. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
When she is named her late best friend's literary executor, Jamie, believing that Gretchen's death was an accident, discovers that Gretchen's manuscript about a murder in her family that haunted her childhood may have caused her demise. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Although I was relatively interested in the storyline, I thought the suspense was bogged down by the numerous biographical entries about the lives of the women of country, which really seemed to have little to do with the overall story. I'm sure the author wanted parallels to be drawn regarding feminism and decisions powerful women make regarding family and career, but it didn't seem to add much to the story overall. Perhaps the author was trying to accomplish too many goals or had mixed audiences in mind. Overall, I enjoyed it enough to finish it but it lacked the active suspense of the author's other novels to date. ( )