{"id":114,"date":"2002-03-14T22:53:50","date_gmt":"2002-03-15T03:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=114"},"modified":"2002-03-14T22:53:50","modified_gmt":"2002-03-15T03:53:50","slug":"douglas_carol_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/03\/douglas_carol_n\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas, Carole Nelson: Catnap; Pussyfoot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I picked up Carole Nelson Douglas’s Catnap<\/cite> and Pussyfoot<\/cite><\/strong> from the dollar rack at a used bookstore a while ago. It’s hard to regret two bucks, but I would have felt better about them if I’d got them from the quarter rack (at a different store).<\/p>\n

These are the first two books in another of the innumerable mysteries-with-cats series. Unfortunately, in these, Midnight Louie (the cat) narrates short portions of the story in this wannabe-tough guy voice that ends up being just insufferably twee. Temple Carr, the PR person from whose point-of-view most of the books are told, isn’t much better—not only does she have a tendency to think in strained “colorful” descriptive language, she’s the perpetually nosy type of mystery protagonist that I always want to tell to mind her own business.<\/p>\n

I kept skimming these because they were very short and the looks at different industry events—a big bookseller’s convention and a stripper’s competition—were interesting. The one about strippers, which deals also with domestic violence, is more serious and gave me hope for a bit—there’s a notable description of what a thorough beating does to one—but in the end, I couldn’t get past the style. I might flip through some of these in the bookstore to see what happens with the mystery men in Temple’s life, but I won’t be reading the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up Carole Nelson Douglas’s Catnap and Pussyfoot from the dollar rack at a used bookstore a while ago. It’s hard to regret two bucks, but I would have felt better about them if I’d got them from the quarter rack (at a different store). These are the first two books in another of … <\/p>\n

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