Lynne Murray

Filed under: Regular Contributors, Lynne Murray, Themes, The Skinny on Fat

Quoting regular Irked contributor Lynne Murray, commenting on Laurie Toby Edison’s Body Impolitic blog:

A New Yorker cartoon I liked a lot (and lost so I don’t have the creator’s name) shows a man sitting on the metal table in the paper gown while the doctor looks at his file and says, “I see here you’re 57 years old. We’d like to get that down a bit.”

.

Read all Irked posts by Lynne

Read all Irked posts tagged “Laurie Toby Edison”

.

Permalink / Comments

Filed under: Regular Contributors, David Roche, Lynne Murray, Books & Book Reviews

The Church of 80% Sincerity – a new book by David Roche

Perigee, $19.95
160 pages
ISBN 978-0-399-53390-7

A review by Lynne Murray

I can pinpoint the exact page on which I decided to join The Church of 80% Sincerity—page 8. I’ll explain in a minute. Click to continue »

Filed under: Regular Contributors, Lynne Murray, Themes, The Skinny on Fat

Green Onions, Yellow Onions, Self-Esteem and Murder

by Lynne Murray

My new motto is Self-Esteem Through Murder, but I should explain that I’m a mystery writer, so the killing is theoretical. In fact, I’m the kind of wimp who keeps a glass jar and cardboard around to rescue bugs that wander into my bathtub.

I do write murder mysteries. (They don’t always get published, but that’s a whole different rant – don’t get me started.) My first mystery, Termination Interview, published in 1988, had a heroine who was, like most fictional female sleuths, very athletic. I modeled her appearance after a Wonder Woman type Aikido practitioner acquaintance (except for the nose ring). I figured a mystery heroine would have to be very muscular in order to fight off bad guys.

There was a fat character in that book and I had a hard time describing her. I spent literally hours on one sentence and never quite said what I wanted to say. What I ended up with was this:

Click to continue »