#MusicalNewYear #TelephoneWire
I drew a complete blank on this prompt yesterday, but this book popped into my head just now. First published in 1948, forgotten for years and republished in 2014, it is a cracking mystery and a fascinating portrait of post war Melbourne. Yet another one of my books I can't find. I desperately need more shelving!
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N_US4P9zPQQ
Before the telephone ☎️ people had to wire or write their love letters ✉️!
#MusicalNewYear It struck me as I was thinking of #TelephoneWire that my kids have probably no idea what that really was, which made me think of one of my favorite books, Station Eleven. Set in the future there‘s a scene where items from the past are sort of memorialized in a “museum”. What item would you want to preserve as a relic of your past???? My first thought was my Walkman 🎧
Although we are firmly entrenched in the digital age, the incorporation of the technology in fiction is still novel &, when executed correctly, exciting. Such as the text messages in Ill Will & Joe Hill's Loaded. It is also fascinating to read an older procedural where the pacing is different, due to the investigator having to hoof it to the nearest phone booth.
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Growing up, one of the mainstays of any mystery or thriller, was when the victim discovered the #telephonewire had been cut. The same scene over and over: they'd pick up the receiver, start stabbing the button trying to get a dial tone, and say repeatedly Hello? Hello? Hello?!
You knew they were in trouble then. 😀
What's the equivalent now? An unwanted text? No service?
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I could be wrong here, because I read this book years ago when it was first published so my memory is fuzzy, but I seem to remember that one of the most vivid parts of RoC for me was Katey Kontent‘s job as a switchboard operator. For some reason, the image was just so intriguing and vivid to me. All these women just lined up in a room taking phone calls.
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I‘ve not read any Mitch Albom....In a small town, people who have lost loved ones begin receiving phone calls from the dead in heaven...
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Love the Myron Bolitar series, one of my favourites 😍 #TelephoneWire #MusicalNewYear
