Comments for Angela Savage

Comment on Ruby Vine by Howard Gostelow.

Howard Gostelow. — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:32:55 +0000

I just surfed into this by accident.
A beautiful story and tribute to a wonderful lady and Mother of my great friend Clive Savage.
I first met Mrs Savage in 1959 at the Savage home in Carnegie.
She was always so kind and nice and was just like a second mother to me.
I will always remember her lovely smiling face.

Howard Gostelow.

Comment on Review: The Holiday Murders by bernadetteinoz

bernadetteinoz — Wed, 22 May 2013 10:43:28 +0000

Finally got around to reading this one. Fantastic book…you’re so right about it depicting “us” how we are rather than how we would like to be. Every note just perfect though and I do hope we get to meet these characters again.

Comment on Review: Antidote to Murder by angelasavage

angelasavage — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:24:14 +0000

I’d say the parallels between the US and Australia are almost uncanny, Kathy, except that conservative, misogynistic, anti-poor ideologues tend to be the same the world over.

Comment on Review: Antidote to Murder by angelasavage

angelasavage — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:22:23 +0000

I look forward to seeing what you think of the Dody McCleland series, Margot.

Comment on Review: Antidote to Murder by kathy d.

kathy d. — Sun, 19 May 2013 20:32:49 +0000

Good points Angela and Margot. However, I think that those who want to overturn reproductive rights here are not those who cared about women’s lives 40 years ago nor do they now. The run-up to the presidential election brought out so much sexism, and worse, misogynistic comments about rape and awful remarks directed to all women, but especially the poor. Each right-wing candidate was outdoing the other. And, unfortunately, all of their scheming ends up with health services for poor women being shut down — where only health check-ups, screenings and family planning went on, so in Texas, over 100,000 women lost medical clinics, the only place they could go.

Comment on Review: Antidote to Murder by Margot Kinberg

Margot Kinberg — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:05:21 +0000

Angela – Oh, I must – absolutely must- read some Felicity Young! I’ve wanted to read this series for quite some time. I am glad that the series deals with some of the issues women have had to face (still do!). There is still such a long way to go and one of the areas in which we really do need work is in reproductive rights. As Kathy says there is a lot of frightening effort to ‘turn back the clock.’ Without reminders like this, it’s very hard to convince people of how truly devastating that would be. I’m glad Young deals with it here.

Comment on Review: Antidote to Murder by angelasavage

angelasavage — Sun, 19 May 2013 11:22:29 +0000

I thought this one would be right up your alley, Kathy. And I will look out for Iron-Jawed Angels – sounds fascinating.

I was reading recently about the ‘Jujitsu suffragettes’, women who trained in martial arts to defend themselves during the protests, which often turned violent as you point out. I actually sent the material to Felicity in the hope that she’ll be able to use it in a future novel.

And sadly, yours is not the only country where conservative elements seek to overturn women’s reproductive rights. That’s why I think novels like Antidote to Murder are important, as well as entertaining. What is it about those who forget their history being doomed to repeat it?

Comment on Review: Antidote to Murder by kathy d.

kathy d. — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:37:38 +0000

You’ve certainly convinced me to purchase this book, read it and give it to a friend who loves historical mysteries, especially with strong women protagonists — and which deal with social and health issues.
I also liked the first book in the series, with only one peeve; that is the suffragist movement took a hard hit for their tactics. That was a huge battle, and some women in England died fighting just for the right to vote. And over here, women had to fight for the vote for years and resorted to all sorts of tactics, including hunger strikes in prison — where they were brutally force-fed, as Felicity Young describes in book I. A very well-done movie about Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who led the suffragist movement during WWI is “Iron-Jawed Angels,” with Hillary Swank and Frances O’Connor. I highly recommend it.
I agree about reproductive rights being hard-won, having been involved in that movement years ago. Unfortunately, there are those who are trying to overturn these rights all over the country. Women’s organizations are fighting back though.
I look forward to reading this book and passing it along.

Comment on Review: Unseen by kathy d.

kathy d. — Sun, 12 May 2013 03:42:43 +0000

And your second sentence up there scares me. I agreed completely with the late, eminent blogger and crime fiction reviewer, Maxine Clark, who said that it frightened her to contemplate who likes this type of book and why. Who are these readers?
I don’t know anyone who likes this type of book, especially women readers.
I think Jayne Keeney’s adventures are just the right balance of story, location, character development, dialogue. They are interesting. One cannot put the books down. And one learns something in the process about social issues in another country than one’s own.
There is nothing to be learned in these books except how some human beings can sadistically torment others, especially women and have no empathy at all.
Isn’t it bad enough to see paychopaths on the TV news? Here in the U.S., we see three young women just freed in Cleveland, Ohio from 10 years of relentless brutality, way beyond most of our comprehension. Why would anyone then want to read this in books that are read for diversion, distraction and entertainment? I do not get it.

Comment on Review: Unseen by angelasavage

angelasavage — Sat, 11 May 2013 06:08:30 +0000

I would have guessed you weren’t a fan of Slaughter (or slaughter), Kathy. I don’t much understand the attraction of graphic violence and gore in crime fiction either, but it sure sells books.