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A review by nancyflanagan
Kinsey and Me: Stories by Sue Grafton
4.0
I'll never turn down the opportunity to read a Sue Grafton book. There's something wonderfully wry and believable in her spotlight character (and, she admits in this book, alter ego) Kinsey Millhone. Kinsey's deadpan delivery, dry wit and no-BS approach to life and mysteries are always a treat.
The Kinsey stories and Grafton's preface are totally delightful--little miniatures of the books, with wonderful twists and fun characters and dialogue. And Grafton tells us that , yes, just as we've always suspected, Kinsey is what she might have become, had her life been different.
The "stories" in the second half are autobiographical. And they're not really tales, but reflections on how Sue Grafton evolved as a writer and a human being. They were clearly written by a different person than the one with the confident voice and head for plots. The writer has some talent, but is a novice--and the prose suffers, as art, although the pieces were undoubtedly cathartic for Grafton.
The Kinsey stories and Grafton's preface are totally delightful--little miniatures of the books, with wonderful twists and fun characters and dialogue. And Grafton tells us that , yes, just as we've always suspected, Kinsey is what she might have become, had her life been different.
The "stories" in the second half are autobiographical. And they're not really tales, but reflections on how Sue Grafton evolved as a writer and a human being. They were clearly written by a different person than the one with the confident voice and head for plots. The writer has some talent, but is a novice--and the prose suffers, as art, although the pieces were undoubtedly cathartic for Grafton.