Some years ago, I wrote a series of three short novels designed for ages 12 and up.
They are now available in one volume for 1/3rd the price!
A Diary Found at Lynchburg is a satire on American life focused on a high school bewitched by a murder mystery.
Narrated by an unknown student of eccentric intelligence, the story is at turns intriguing, humorous, sarcastic, dramatic, and of course mysterious, everything one would want in a mystery novel!
You undoubtedly would like to give the gift of Reading to many people: your support would be greatly appreciated. 8)
The trilogy (Why Begins With W, Dial Emma for Murder, Hex High School), when it was three separate books, had only 5-star reviews!
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61F+x12AyfL._SL1000_.jpg)
To order:
https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1 (https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1)
Warmly recommended by me.
I periodically re-read it. It's engaging, witty and (like Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time) although nominally aimed at young adults, of sufficient specific gravity for the appreciation of no-longer-young adults.
No kindle edition?
Quote from: Cato on November 26, 2023, 04:44:31 PMSome years ago, I wrote a series of three short novels designed for ages 12 and up.
They are now available in one volume for 1/3rd the price!
A Diary Found at Lynchburg is a satire on American life focused on a high school bewitched by a murder mystery.
Narrated by an unknown student of eccentric intelligence, the story is at turns intriguing, humorous, sarcastic, dramatic, and of course mysterious, everything one would want in a mystery novel!
You undoubtedly would like to give the gift of Reading to many people: your support would be greatly appreciated. 8)
The trilogy (Why Begins With W, Dial Emma for Murder, Hex High School), when it was three separate books, had only 5-star reviews!
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61F+x12AyfL._SL1000_.jpg)
QuoteTo order:
https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1 (https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1)
Quote from: Karl Henning on November 26, 2023, 05:02:19 PMI periodically re-read it. It's engaging, witty and (like Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time) although nominally aimed at young adults, of sufficient specific gravity for the appreciation of no-longer-young adults.
Let me greatly thank
Karl for his support throughout the years!
And many thanks also to anyone who recently bought the book!
Quote from: Cato on November 26, 2023, 04:44:31 PMSome years ago, I wrote a series of three short novels designed for ages 12 and up.
They are now available in one volume for 1/3rd the price!
A Diary Found at Lynchburg is a satire on American life focused on a high school bewitched by a murder mystery.
Narrated by an unknown student of eccentric intelligence, the story is at turns intriguing, humorous, sarcastic, dramatic, and of course mysterious, everything one would want in a mystery novel!
You undoubtedly would like to give the gift of Reading to many people: your support would be greatly appreciated. 8)
The trilogy (Why Begins With W, Dial Emma for Murder, Hex High School), when it was three separate books, had only 5-star reviews!
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61F+x12AyfL._SL1000_.jpg)
To order:
https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1 (https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1)
Just a gentle bump as Christmas gift-buying season is now less than 2 weeks away! ;)
Quote from: Cato on November 26, 2023, 04:44:31 PMSome years ago, I wrote a series of three short novels designed for ages 12 and up.
They are now available in one volume for 1/3rd the price!
A Diary Found at Lynchburg is a satire on American life focused on a high school bewitched by a murder mystery.
Narrated by an unknown student of eccentric intelligence, the story is at turns intriguing, humorous, sarcastic, dramatic, and of course mysterious, everything one would want in a mystery novel!
You undoubtedly would like to give the gift of Reading to many people: your support would be greatly appreciated. 8)
The trilogy (Why Begins With W, Dial Emma for Murder, Hex High School), when it was three separate books, had only 5-star reviews!
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61F+x12AyfL._SL1000_.jpg)
To order:
Quotehttps://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1 (https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1)
5 - FIVE! - Days before Christmas! Not too late to order your copy today! 😇
I'll be ordering it.
Quote from: Dave B on December 25, 2023, 08:13:29 PMI'll be ordering it.
Many thanks for your support!
Just a reminder here, especially if you received Book-Store gift cards! :D
Allow me to suggest a murder-mystery for your summer leisure moments: 😇
A Diary Found at Lynchburg (https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1)
Quote from: Cato on July 03, 2024, 01:01:06 PMAllow me to suggest a murder-mystery for your summer leisure moments: 😇
A Diary Found at Lynchburg (https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1)
Better summer reading than the average!
Quote from: Karl Henning on July 03, 2024, 02:39:12 PMBetter summer reading than the average!
In fact, it's time for me to re-read it myself!
I must buy a copy.
It is still sitting on my shelf, time to pull it out! I get easily distracted. I have one library ebook checkout I'm reading along with three physical ones queued up.
Quote from: Karl Henning on July 03, 2024, 03:40:51 PMIn fact, it's time for me to re-read it myself!
Just re-started. I find new bits in it each time. How does that work?
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on July 03, 2024, 08:42:35 PMI must buy a copy.
Many thanks for your support!
Quote from: DavidW on July 04, 2024, 07:14:43 AMIt is still sitting on my shelf, time to pull it out! I get easily distracted. I have one library ebook checkout I'm reading along with three physical ones queued up.
Distractions are the dancing devil 😇 of our electronic age!
Thanks in advance for reading!
Quote from: Karl Henning on July 04, 2024, 07:30:54 AMJust re-started. I find new bits in it each time. How does that work?
I think it has to do with our own passage through Life: the book obviously is static, but perhaps our minds change in different ways throughout the years, so that the book is interpreted or viewed differently, or so that things, which we did not notice 5 or 10 years earlier, are now flashing at us because of our more mature, more observant natures.
When I was teaching German, I had my 4th-year students read
Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) (in English: excerpts in German were given also).
I asked them to consider re-reading the book every 10 years or so, with the observation that it was my experience that the book will be understood more deeply as one ages.
Quote from: Karl Henning on July 03, 2024, 03:40:51 PMIn fact, it's time for me to re-read it myself!
I'm reading the original incarnation as the three-volume
Time Capsule Murders. Just finished
Why Begins With W ... and on to Dial
Emma for Murder.
I'm starting it now. :)
Quote from: DavidW on July 05, 2024, 02:44:28 PMI'm starting it now. :)
Many thanks!
Quote from: Karl Henning on July 05, 2024, 02:34:33 PMI'm reading the original incarnation as the three-volume Time Capsule Murders. Just finished Why Begins With W ... and on to Dial Emma for Murder.
Yes, thank you again!
I should explain that the book was originally published as 3 smaller books of c. 120 pages or so:
Why Begins With W, Dial Emma for Murder, and
Hex High School.As one volume now, it is priced at 2/3 of the original cost, depending on how you bought it.
Quote from: Cato on July 03, 2024, 01:01:06 PMAllow me to suggest a murder-mystery for your summer leisure moments: 😇
A Diary Found at Lynchburg (https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1)
It just occurs to me that my PT has a daughter of an age which is the book's prime demographic. A gift copy is in order.
Quote from: Karl Henning on July 05, 2024, 03:24:44 PMIt just occurs to me that my PT has a daughter of an age which is the book's prime demographic. A gift copy is in order.
Yes, and thank you again!
The action takes place in an American public high school, so teenagers are invited to read the book as well, along with talented 7th or 8th Graders! 8)
Quote from: Karl Henning on July 05, 2024, 03:24:44 PMIt just occurs to me that my PT has a daughter of an age which is the book's prime demographic. A gift copy is in order.
Ka-ching!
Quote from: Cato on July 06, 2024, 04:43:50 PMThank you again for spreading the word!
A pleasure to beat the drum for a book I enjoy so much, and repeatedly.
I thought I would read the individual stories separately. But then I discovered that they were more like chapters in the same story!
Quote from: Karl Henning on July 05, 2024, 02:34:33 PMand on to Dial Emma for Murder.
Flew through that one! And so now:
Hex High School.
Quote from: Karl Henning on July 07, 2024, 01:59:35 PMFlew threw that one! And so now: Hex High School.
We are in the same place then, I just finished Dial Emma for Murder.
Quote from: Karl Henning on July 07, 2024, 01:59:35 PMFlew threw that one! And so now: Hex High School.
Quote from: DavidW on July 07, 2024, 02:14:39 PMWe are in the same place then, I just finished Dial Emma for Murder.
I hope the excitement is building, although
Karl undoubtedly remembers how things end! 8)
I finished it. This is like if Terry Pratchett were to write a high school murder mystery. It is primarily funny, witty, and clever. But, also it was a good mystery. I didn't see the true killer until it was too late.
Quote from: DavidW on July 08, 2024, 11:16:34 AMI finished it. This is like if Terry Pratchett were to write a high school murder mystery. It is primarily funny, witty, and clever. But, also it was a good mystery. I didn't see the true killer until it was too late.
Many thanks for the nice review and for reading! 😇
To be honest, I did not see the true killer either, until I was approaching the climax! ;)
Quote from: DavidW on July 08, 2024, 11:16:34 AMI finished it. This is like if Terry Pratchett were to write a high school murder mystery. It is primarily funny, witty, and clever. But, also it was a good mystery. I didn't see the true killer until it was too late.
Very cool. Delighted that you enjoyed it so!
I allowed myself to be distracted (days of Things Like Bliss) but last night and today I burned through Hex High School. Witty, a teenager who is both a wise-acre and emotionally invested in righting a fallen schoolmate, and whose curiosity leads them into risk.
Consider
A Diary Found at Lynchburg for a Halloween treat guaranteed not to involve diabetes or a dentist three months later! 😇
Quote from: Karl Henning on July 12, 2024, 04:06:18 PM... last night and today I burned through Hex High School. Witty, a teenager who is both a wise-acre and emotionally invested in righting a fallen schoolmate, and whose curiosity leads them into risk.
Quote from: DavidW on July 08, 2024, 11:16:34 AMI finished it. This is like if Terry Pratchett were to write a high school murder mystery. It is primarily funny, witty, and clever. But, also it was a good mystery. I didn't see the true killer until it was too late.
Here is the link to the book on Amazon with a recent 5-star review:
A Diary Found at Lynchburg (https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.BZZDXGqgSvRAhrKkXUw6g9544N5rPqt_OROrA3SvvS_GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.OJ5P8Lzg_vr40RWJlTfoENuNQKhBlwx0eeZ1fNQYZhU&dib_tag=se&keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&mfadid=adm&qid=1728665362&sr=8-1)
Quote from: Cato on November 26, 2023, 04:44:31 PMSome years ago, I wrote a series of three short novels designed for ages 12 and up.
They are now available in one volume for 1/3rd the price!
A Diary Found at Lynchburg is a satire on American life focused on a high school bewitched by a murder mystery.
Narrated by an unknown student of eccentric intelligence, the story is at turns intriguing, humorous, sarcastic, dramatic, and of course mysterious, everything one would want in a mystery novel!
You undoubtedly would like to give the gift of Reading to many people: your support would be greatly appreciated. 8)
The trilogy (Why Begins With W, Dial Emma for Murder, Hex High School), when it was three separate books, had only 5-star reviews
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61F+x12AyfL._SL1000_.jpg)
To order:
https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1 (https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Found-at-Lynchburg/dp/0999521497/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Diary+Found+at+Lynchburg&qid=1701048926&sr=8-1)
In America these days, when Halloween is over, it is
CHRISTMAS SEASON!!! :o :o :o
From the review of this one-volume edition:
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I found it very appealing that the self-appointed detective in this unusual murder mystery is a 14-year-old high school freshman, and maybe that is because I am raising a 14-year-old right now.
This age group can be brilliantly observant and annoyingly dense at the same time, but then again, they probably say the same thing about parents and teachers. The author understands high schools and those who populate them very well.
The story holds many surprises and insights. I loved the many zingers and the philosophizing. "Not knowing how the story ends, not knowing how your life is part of that story: that's the worst thing about life..." Indeed.
A clever page-turner.
Great review, congrats!