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Reginald Hill dies at 75 (January 13)
Took me several years to kill off Patrick O'Brian, after all...
(That was a joke, if you're worried, but I don't feel like making smiley faces.)
Anyway, I've now read the solid lot from Bones and Silence onwards, plus An Advancement of Learning, and I have a couple more early ones on library hold. There are non-D&P books to read, too, if I feel like it.
My husband, "Portlandia" on his mind, says I should look up "R. Hill" in the local phone book and ask him to write another book for me. (You would have to have seen the "Battlestar Galactica" bit. SO TRUE.)
Took me several years to kill off Patrick O'Brian, after all...
(That was a joke, if you're worried, but I don't feel like making smiley faces.)
Anyway, I've now read the solid lot from Bones and Silence onwards, plus An Advancement of Learning, and I have a couple more early ones on library hold. There are non-D&P books to read, too, if I feel like it.
My husband, "Portlandia" on his mind, says I should look up "R. Hill" in the local phone book and ask him to write another book for me. (You would have to have seen the "Battlestar Galactica" bit. SO TRUE.)
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Date: 2012-01-22 09:27 am (UTC)From:Why is it, BTW, that authors don't get as much media attention as, say, actors? I only realized last week that Michael Crichton died years ago, and I never heard anything about it, not even on-line?
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Date: 2012-01-22 02:00 pm (UTC)From:And yes, about authors' deaths. I did know about Michael Crichton, but I must just have seen it in passing (heh) in the paper or online, and usually I find I have to check Wikipedia or somewhere to be sure if someone's alive. Happened across Hill's death last night while I was searching for a complete series list.