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The Good Cop, by Dorien Grey
Not the most subtle nom de plume ever invented, but what to expect from a writer who names his gay private eye "Dick Hardesty"!
Despite that lack of subtlety, the book is actually quite good. Hardesty's old friend Tom Brady is a closeted police officer in a marriage of convenience with lesbian LIsa. When he is at a gay bar with Hardesty, he stops a gay bashing, but in a police department that is in the midst of a feud between the homophobic old-timers, and a new guard, suspicion is immediately raised. Then he is murdered, and Tom must help maintain an uneasy truce between the police and the gay community, while he tries to find his friend's killer, who may be a fellow cop. He must also fend off the advances of a teen-aged hustler whom he has befriended, and who is in danger from Brady's enemies.
Other stuff
Trust me to go out looking for a table or stand for my new TV and come back with two bookcases! I had gone to a couple of stores yesterday, didn't really care for any of the stands I saw - anything would have been a compromise - and then at Pier One I saw a folding bookcase on sale. Four shelves, about four feet high just under two feet wide, and the it tapers top to bottom. There was a taller one as well, but I decided it was too tall, and the top shelf wouldn't be stable enough for the lamp. Went home and thought about it, and decided I'd leave the TV on the Pembroke, and use the bookshelf for the lamp, etc., in addition to having more room for books. Musing further, I decided to measure the empty corner of the butler's pantry. What do you know - one would fit perfectly! So this morning I went off to Pier One, bought the bookcases, and now my cookbooks are happily ensconced just off the kitchen, where they ought to be, and the other shelf is in the living room.
Went to see the new musical, "Light in the Piazza" this evening. We nearly missed the curtain! It's usually at 7:30 and we got there just before 7:00. Suddenly the lights were blinking in the lobby - turned out this performance started at 7:00! (I think it's because it was a press preview). One should look at one's tickets. As for the show, well, preferisco il film. The music was pretty ordinary, and much of a muchness, and the woman who played Clara had a rather shrill voice. Also, some important development was lost in the songs. It would have been much better as a straight play, as was evident from the scene in the shop between Mrs. Johnson and Sr. Naccarelli after he has forbidden the marriage, and from the scene of Mr. & Mrs. Johnson's phone conversation when she tells him Clara and Fabrizio are going to be married. The music just seemed like so much interruption. (Of course, I enjoyed the fact that I understood almost all of the Italian!)
The Good Cop, by Dorien Grey
Not the most subtle nom de plume ever invented, but what to expect from a writer who names his gay private eye "Dick Hardesty"!
Despite that lack of subtlety, the book is actually quite good. Hardesty's old friend Tom Brady is a closeted police officer in a marriage of convenience with lesbian LIsa. When he is at a gay bar with Hardesty, he stops a gay bashing, but in a police department that is in the midst of a feud between the homophobic old-timers, and a new guard, suspicion is immediately raised. Then he is murdered, and Tom must help maintain an uneasy truce between the police and the gay community, while he tries to find his friend's killer, who may be a fellow cop. He must also fend off the advances of a teen-aged hustler whom he has befriended, and who is in danger from Brady's enemies.
Other stuff
Trust me to go out looking for a table or stand for my new TV and come back with two bookcases! I had gone to a couple of stores yesterday, didn't really care for any of the stands I saw - anything would have been a compromise - and then at Pier One I saw a folding bookcase on sale. Four shelves, about four feet high just under two feet wide, and the it tapers top to bottom. There was a taller one as well, but I decided it was too tall, and the top shelf wouldn't be stable enough for the lamp. Went home and thought about it, and decided I'd leave the TV on the Pembroke, and use the bookshelf for the lamp, etc., in addition to having more room for books. Musing further, I decided to measure the empty corner of the butler's pantry. What do you know - one would fit perfectly! So this morning I went off to Pier One, bought the bookcases, and now my cookbooks are happily ensconced just off the kitchen, where they ought to be, and the other shelf is in the living room.
Went to see the new musical, "Light in the Piazza" this evening. We nearly missed the curtain! It's usually at 7:30 and we got there just before 7:00. Suddenly the lights were blinking in the lobby - turned out this performance started at 7:00! (I think it's because it was a press preview). One should look at one's tickets. As for the show, well, preferisco il film. The music was pretty ordinary, and much of a muchness, and the woman who played Clara had a rather shrill voice. Also, some important development was lost in the songs. It would have been much better as a straight play, as was evident from the scene in the shop between Mrs. Johnson and Sr. Naccarelli after he has forbidden the marriage, and from the scene of Mr. & Mrs. Johnson's phone conversation when she tells him Clara and Fabrizio are going to be married. The music just seemed like so much interruption. (Of course, I enjoyed the fact that I understood almost all of the Italian!)