The Keys to the Street
Registered by 
maid-of-kent
of Amstelveen, Noord-Holland Netherlands on 10/15/2013
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
maid-of-kent of Amstelveen, Noord-Holland Netherlands on 10/15/2013 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by maid-of-kent from Amstelveen, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Tuesday, October 15, 2013
maid-of-kent from Amstelveen, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Quite a good story.
Journal Entry 2 by maid-of-kent at BC Meeting 2014 in Castricum, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Thursday, July 3, 2014
maid-of-kent at BC Meeting 2014 in Castricum, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Thursday, July 3, 2014
Released 9 yrs ago (7/6/2014 UTC) at BC Meeting 2014 in Castricum, Noord-Holland Netherlands
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Taken from the table at Castricum. I've only read one book by Ruth Rendell and I seem to remember enjoying it so I'll give this a go. I see maid-of-kent's comment is damning it with faint praise. ;-) We'll see!
Started 26 May 2021 - Finished 29 May 2021
If nothing else, this book will make you aware of railings as never before and have you looking at them in a totally new light. I can’t help but feel that Ruth Rendell must have spent her life observing her surroundings just as obsessively as one of her psychopathic criminals, scoping out a specific way of killing her victims.
Starts off very tiresomely and cryptically with obscure vignettes of characters who will presumably be important. Not to mention tediously long passages about railings and the geography of Regent’s Park, which could have been better achieved with a map. Likewise, towards the end of the book, there is a long description of roads which totally destroys any feeling of suspense that may have been built up, though this is minimal due to constant switching between the perspectives of several different characters and dropping in peculiar references that - in the age of the internet - I cannot help but follow up, but leave me none the wiser. Admittedly, Ruth Rendell wrote this before most people had computers and the internet was rudimentary, but printing a black and white sketch map at the front of the book was perfectly commonplace and would have saved swathes of boring explanations of irrelevant details.
I enjoyed reading this and could say a lot more about it. One day I may write up my notes on my blog.
If nothing else, this book will make you aware of railings as never before and have you looking at them in a totally new light. I can’t help but feel that Ruth Rendell must have spent her life observing her surroundings just as obsessively as one of her psychopathic criminals, scoping out a specific way of killing her victims.
Starts off very tiresomely and cryptically with obscure vignettes of characters who will presumably be important. Not to mention tediously long passages about railings and the geography of Regent’s Park, which could have been better achieved with a map. Likewise, towards the end of the book, there is a long description of roads which totally destroys any feeling of suspense that may have been built up, though this is minimal due to constant switching between the perspectives of several different characters and dropping in peculiar references that - in the age of the internet - I cannot help but follow up, but leave me none the wiser. Admittedly, Ruth Rendell wrote this before most people had computers and the internet was rudimentary, but printing a black and white sketch map at the front of the book was perfectly commonplace and would have saved swathes of boring explanations of irrelevant details.
I enjoyed reading this and could say a lot more about it. One day I may write up my notes on my blog.
Journal Entry 5 by bookguide at Bücherschrank Höheweg in Interlaken, Bern / Berne Switzerland on Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Released 2 yrs ago (7/28/2021 UTC) at Bücherschrank Höheweg in Interlaken, Bern / Berne Switzerland
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- Reduce Mount TBR (To Be Read) - read and release books on the TBR list since before the end of the previous year.
- The Ultimate Challenge - read and release books, with extra points for a monthly theme
- Reduce Mount TBR (To Be Read) - read and release books on the TBR list since before the end of the previous year.
