After all the "thick" stuff I've been reading lately, dropping down a gear or two to a Janet Evanovich mystery seemed apropos. To that end I bought Smokin Seventeen and the first line I saw was:
"MY GRANDMA MAZUR called me early this morning."
Not much there to sink ones teeth into, but that's what I wanted. The following passage seems typical of Evanovich. A sense of flair, whimsy and absurd all in one.
“I had a dream,” Grandma said. “There was this big horse, and it could fly. It didn’t have wings. It just could fly. And the horse flew over top of you, and started dropping road apples, and you were running around trying to get out of the way of the road apples. And the funny thing was you didn’t have any clothes on except a red lace thong kind of underpants. Anyways, next thing a rhinoceros flew over you, and he was sort of hovering over top your head. And then I woke up. I got a feeling it means something.”
Evanovich, Janet - Smokin' Seventeen: A Stephanie Plum Novel
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