{"id":22434,"date":"2023-09-27T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22434"},"modified":"2024-01-30T19:42:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T00:42:42","slug":"die-for-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22434","title":{"rendered":"Die for Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Die for Love<\/em><\/a> (1984) Elizabeth Peters<\/a> (Jacqueline Kirby)<\/p>\n

\"Die<\/a>First, I love the reminders of a world past.<\/p>\n

Jacqueline began to fear she would miss her plane. When she remonstrated, he said cheerfully, \u201cOh, there\u2019s plenty of time,\u201d and indeed they reached the gate several seconds before the loudspeaker announced the last call for Flight 576.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I mean… can you even imagine trying to arrive at the airport minutes before takeoff?<\/p>\n

And this!<\/p>\n

Jacqueline sat holding the telephone until a mechanical voice began to drone, \u201cPlease hang up. You have left the instrument off the hook. Please hang up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And despite her flaws (and there are many) I do like Jacqueline.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m enjoying myself.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThen you must have a weakness for weirdos.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI do\u2014if you mean people with unorthodox opinions about obscure subjects. They\u2019re much more interesting than so-called normal people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there is this bit:<\/p>\n

Jacqueline switched to fluent if ungrammatical Spanish. \u201cWhere is the Laurie? I have the need to speak at her. It is of an important much urgent.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou are a teacher of Spanish, se\u00f1ora?\u201d the maid asked doubtfully.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am the teacher of the English,\u201d Jacqueline replied. \u201cThe young woman is not in the school for today and the week. At what hour is it the possibility that she returning to the house is?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love that we see the main character flubbing the foreign language, rather than seeing a secondary character struggle with English.<\/p>\n

Publisher: William Morrow<\/p>\n

Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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