Getting Into Arizona
Given the classic media cluster-#$&*, there must be few other than those determinedly navel-gazing, demented, or otherwise (perhaps wisely) managing to shut out the rest of the world who have not had some 'Zona in their face these last few days.
I have certainly compiled a fascinating batch of links on the political aspects of that awful event and the aftermath, but you will probably be relieved to not find any of them in this post.
By mysterious coincidence, as you might have noticed from my previous post, I was already intent on the lower right quadrant of the state. I got there by way of recommendation by Ms. Pearl of the Book Lust series and specifically the great number Going Back to Bisbee. That book strongly resonated with me. I went on about some aspects in last post. I made a point of emailing that post to a few folks who I knew had a serious Jones for AZ. One, co-worker Jessica, drew my attention to the J. A. Jance series involving Sheriff Joanna Brady, set in Bisbee and Cochise County. I am already a Jance fan from the J. P. Beamount series, but had not for some reason tumbled to Brady. I have the first two waiting at Ms. Pearl's former home base, the Seattle Public Library, and am already savoring a more recent number in the series, by coincidence comped to spouse. Jance apparently grew up in Bisbee.
Even more coincidentally, I grabbed a couple books-on-disk at library on the occasion of recent road trip to visit daughter-and-son-in-law. The one we happened to engage with ("Server Down") involved Tucson (or "Tuscon," as a distressing number of recent on-line articles by folks with bad spelling, a total detachment, or both, have it). I did enjoy this book, apparently one of a series involving "Mad Dog", and featuring a frighteningly fast semi-domestic wolf with almost super-canine powers, but was left with questions. The story involved an elaborate on-line game that somehow takes on a life of its' own, with on-line game kills resulting in real-life homicides, and etc. So really this has to be classed more as a science fantasy-fiction/mystery or something.
I have certainly compiled a fascinating batch of links on the political aspects of that awful event and the aftermath, but you will probably be relieved to not find any of them in this post.
By mysterious coincidence, as you might have noticed from my previous post, I was already intent on the lower right quadrant of the state. I got there by way of recommendation by Ms. Pearl of the Book Lust series and specifically the great number Going Back to Bisbee. That book strongly resonated with me. I went on about some aspects in last post. I made a point of emailing that post to a few folks who I knew had a serious Jones for AZ. One, co-worker Jessica, drew my attention to the J. A. Jance series involving Sheriff Joanna Brady, set in Bisbee and Cochise County. I am already a Jance fan from the J. P. Beamount series, but had not for some reason tumbled to Brady. I have the first two waiting at Ms. Pearl's former home base, the Seattle Public Library, and am already savoring a more recent number in the series, by coincidence comped to spouse. Jance apparently grew up in Bisbee.
Even more coincidentally, I grabbed a couple books-on-disk at library on the occasion of recent road trip to visit daughter-and-son-in-law. The one we happened to engage with ("Server Down") involved Tucson (or "Tuscon," as a distressing number of recent on-line articles by folks with bad spelling, a total detachment, or both, have it). I did enjoy this book, apparently one of a series involving "Mad Dog", and featuring a frighteningly fast semi-domestic wolf with almost super-canine powers, but was left with questions. The story involved an elaborate on-line game that somehow takes on a life of its' own, with on-line game kills resulting in real-life homicides, and etc. So really this has to be classed more as a science fantasy-fiction/mystery or something.
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