"Never has a nursing home looked like a place I feel like visiting as much as Cooper's Chase" / Lily Milat grabs a shelf

When the man's aunt's husband says something and I didn't laugh, I know I probably didn't catch the nuances in English. Everything he says, always with a closed face, will be accompanied by the thin, cynical, London humor. English humor is my favorite. Like in the cartoons when the character runs in the air just before she realizes that she is about to fall, this is how I am when he says something - a moment passes and then, the big laugh.

His face remains indifferent and only his eyes sparkle with the realization that he once again managed to give me a little pleasure. This war Hamsa (literally with the damned Hamas) from us many things, among other things a visit from the beloved uncles from England and I am full of longing.

The Thursday Murder Club / Richard Osman

This week I chose well, I chose correctly and what fun it is to be able to share the pleasure with you. I will start with the acknowledgments he wrote Richard Osman, at the end of his debut book, Thursday's Murder Club. "Thank you very much for reading 'Thursday Murder Club'. Unless you haven't read it yet and skipped straight to the acknowledgments, which I understand is also a possibility. You must live your life as you choose."

So even this morning, when I finished reading it with a satisfied smile and of course, in good books I always read the acknowledgments, he managed to make me giggle. At first glance it may not be clear what's funny, but that's exactly what grabs me - the statements I didn't expect are wrapped in the same apparent indifference.

But let's go back. After last week's debacle, I wanted a fix. The cover of the book with that gorgeous and the gun caught my eye. When I read that the author was English and there was written on the cover a promise of nothing less than Mr. Suspense Harlan Coban, the deal was completed and I opened the book: "Let's start with Elizabeth, shall we? And see where that takes us?" So many books I read, so many beginnings and somehow Richard Osman made me sit back on the sofa, smile appreciatively and continue.

If so, do you have a beginning and an end and what in between? 

Characters I fell in love with, no matter which side of the law they drive. Old women and old men, I wanted to hug, not to do them a favor, but for me, because they gave me pleasure, because they let me enter the content and be empathetic and judge and still understand them to the end. There are no round characters in Richard Osman and none of them are boring. Never has a nursing home looked like a place I feel like visiting as much as Coopers Chase. There is a murder, at least one.

There are solutions, which lead to more solutions. And there are human stories woven so that at the end of reading I don't know who my favorite character is - Joyce? Elizabeth? Bernard? Inspector Hudson? The policewoman (from) Donna? Ron or his boxer son? How great it is to make me like them all. Except for the second murdered, actually.

Or as Joyce writes in her diary: "A lot of people die on any given day. I don't know what the statistics are, but it's probably thousands. So someone was supposed to die yesterday, and I'm only saying that because I'd rather it be ***" (I'm not writing down the name so as not to give you a spoiler, because you have to read the book yourself, yes?).

So I'm waiting for the movie that Spielberg promised would be made based on this book. I'm interested in how he will resurrect all this grace and humor from the pages. I will recommend you to read, because no matter what the talented Spielberg does, nothing compares to our imagination mixed with black ink on a white page.

Today we are celebrating a good friend's birthday and this time, I will allow myself some small culinary pleasure, because as Chris Hudson thought to himself, when he put a slice of Joyce's coffee and king nut cake in his mouth, "It's a well-known fact that there are no calories in homemade cakes."

If only because of the great pleasure and the pleasant longing it inspired in me, regarding the question of whether remains or is released In my personal library, the Thursday Murder Club too remaining And it will also be placed next to the other English book, which I haven't written to you about yet, because it is in my opening trio and deserves its own column. 
To finish, I chose a quote that has no humor in it and so touched my heart: "Now the stupid tears are real. I'll let them flow. If you don't cry sometimes, you'll end up crying all the time."

Book details: 

Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, Azure Publishing, 2021.
Pleasant reading and may good words be by your side always,
Lily