Author Topic: Mystery Corner ~ 2 (Read 906122 times)

MaryPage · « **Reply #7480 on:** July 01, 2015, 08:29:07 AM »

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Me too, but I just use

Control +

and Voila! All is well.

I guess I am not the most observant human on the planet, because I don't see any difference in any of these sites, except that they seem wider and I cannot see anyone's whole post, but have to move my mouse from side to side in order to read the contents of each post. So far, and I DO so hate to grumble, but so far no improvement noted here.

Steph · « **Reply #7481 on:** July 01, 2015, 08:39:13 AM »

OK.. I'll bite. When do I hit control+.. when I go on site..??

Frybabe · « **Reply #7482 on:** July 01, 2015, 11:15:00 AM »

Steph, I just tried the Control + and it works in my Firefox browser. From my experiments just now, I think it holds across all your wanderings in the browser. You can hit control + several times to make it even bigger, or hit Control - to make everything smaller.

Thanks for the suggestion MaryPage. I knew something like that could be done, just forgot about it.

jane · « **Reply #7483 on:** July 01, 2015, 11:21:17 AM »

MaryPage...it may be that you have a size chosen that is making you need to scroll. I have used Control + but I don't have to scroll.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #7484 on:** July 01, 2015, 01:18:31 PM »

I just put my cursor over whatever the message is, then hit Control+ and it makes the font bigger.
To me, the site looks really good, and maybe we can all get our font sizes worked out, LOL!
Are all the boards upgraded already?

ginny · « **Reply #7485 on:** July 01, 2015, 01:35:04 PM »

Yes, they are. It's all done by some miracle now it needs tweaking.

You can do the entire site at once by hitting Control (Ctrl) on the bottom of your keyboard for a computer and the bar with plus on it on the right hand side also. Your post specific method is very clever. On my computer everything enlarges including the highlighted words. Jane will explain more in the Library when she returns today, because keyboards are different. But in essence it will then do the entire site for good, that is everybody's posts and headings, etc.

Thank you for being such a trooper!~ A lot of people actually like the look, we just want it customized for our benefit.

JoanK · « **Reply #7486 on:** July 01, 2015, 06:04:06 PM »

Great! I tried it and it works. I hit ctrl minus (the minus key next to the plus key, and it went back.

What it did was make the whole page bigger. So MARYPAGE try ctrl minus to shrink the page so you can see it all. If you don't like what happens, hit ctrl plus to get back.

MaryPage · « **Reply #7487 on:** July 01, 2015, 08:24:58 PM »

Oh, I have known about Ctrl+ and Ctrl- for eons now. There are huge gaps in my computer knowledge, but that is one thing I managed to grasp some time ago.

Steph · « **Reply #7488 on:** July 02, 2015, 08:09:00 AM »

It works and when I really tried to think of it, I remember quite a few years ago, you used it, but I have not for some time now. Now to see if my set will make the print somewhat darker..
Just almost finished Donna Andrews.. This is the latest.. emu is the bird this time. It is fun as always, but oh my, between her husband andher baby sitter, her twins are constantly being taken care of,not by her.

marjifay · « **Reply #7489 on:** July 04, 2015, 02:06:03 PM »

Never mind. I hit control and minus and it went back to normal. Why is everything so cock-eyed in these groups now?

Marj

jane · « **Reply #7490 on:** July 04, 2015, 02:54:19 PM »

Marj...what is looking cock-eyed to you?

[As you know we had a major software upgrade that had to be done last Monday. The old software no longer had any support. So, we need to know what is off so we can see if we can get it fixed.]

jane

marjifay · « **Reply #7491 on:** July 04, 2015, 03:43:49 PM »

Well, the talk about some not being able to read the print size, or about a different way of posting a message. So far I've not had any trouble.

Marj

Steph · « **Reply #7492 on:** July 05, 2015, 10:50:46 AM »

Some of us have had the print shrink enormously and had to adjust. I have had no problems posting, so no idea about that.

MaryPage · « **Reply #7493 on:** July 06, 2015, 07:46:04 AM »

I have both the print much, much, MUCH smaller, which is hard on these old eyes, but which I can easily fix, of course, but also the post, and especially this box we write into, much wider. But Ginny says I am mistaken about the width, and am thinking of Seniors & Friends, where the post takes up less than half the screen. I can only report that I used to be able to see this whole box, the one I am typing this message into, while typing into it, but now I have to constantly use the mouse to go back and forth and forth and back both to read the so very wide post AND to click on Spell Check and Bold and Color and Post.

Steph · « **Reply #7494 on:** July 06, 2015, 08:43:15 AM »

Wow MaryPage,that sounds truly annoying. Mine is working well,but still quite light in print.

jane · « **Reply #7495 on:** July 06, 2015, 12:13:08 PM »

Please report all issues in our new area so we have all the issues in one place and can work through the list.

ISSUES: http://seniorlearn.org/forum/index.php?board=200.0

Steph · « **Reply #7496 on:** July 07, 2015, 10:25:44 AM »

Started a Harlan Coben..:Missing you".. but it seems to be turning somewhat darker than his normal.. Hm, may or may not continue. Burying people alive in jails seems a bit more than I deal with.

JoanK · « **Reply #7497 on:** July 08, 2015, 04:23:53 PM »

I'm having fun with my kindle unlimited. Lots of mysteries, but I don't know how many are available outside of kindle.

I've enjoyed some cozies about a woman who runs clambakes on a Maine island by Barbara Ross.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/barbara-ross/

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/barbara-ross/

Steph · « **Reply #7498 on:** July 09, 2015, 08:40:08 AM »

I have set aside the Coben, just too dark for me at present. Picked up another of the Elizabeth I, mysteries. Fun and full of tidbits about the era..

JoanK · « **Reply #7499 on:** July 13, 2015, 04:27:10 PM »

Read an excellent mystery, "Malice" by Keigo Higashino.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/keigo-higashino/

Translated from the Japanese. I guess you'd call it a police procedural. It takes you step by step in unraveling the truth behind a murder, alternating point of view between the man who found the body and the investigating policeman. I haven't seen this logical progression of detecting in a long time. But in spite of the logic and spare writing style, it also packs quite an emotional punch.

Steph · « **Reply #7500 on:** July 14, 2015, 07:48:13 AM »

never heard of the author,but will put him on my look for list.

FlaJean · « **Reply #7501 on:** July 14, 2015, 11:25:33 AM »

Sounds interesting as I like police procedural mysteries. Joan, did you get this for your Kindle reader?

JoanK · « **Reply #7502 on:** July 14, 2015, 04:12:03 PM »

No, from my library. It's available on kindle, but it's $11.99. At that price, you might read the sample first, and see if you like the style.

FlaJean · « **Reply #7503 on:** July 14, 2015, 05:04:02 PM »

I checked with my library and they have two books by him (The Devotion of Suspect and Salvation of a Saint) but no Malice. I think I'll check out those two books and see if I like his writing.

Steph · « **Reply #7504 on:** July 15, 2015, 08:51:45 AM »

Was straightening out the TBR file and ran on Metzgars Dog.. by Thomas Perry. I always liked him and had never read this one, which is a very early and thus far very funny book.. A cannon in your van.. oh me..

JoanK · « **Reply #7505 on:** July 16, 2015, 04:36:21 PM »

FLA: let me know what you think of the books. my library doesn't have them.

A cannon in the van? Oh me is right.

Steph · « **Reply #7506 on:** July 17, 2015, 08:32:33 AM »

I like Thomas Perry and had not read Metgers Dog. It is truly funny and violent and very very anti CIA.. Loved it and the cannon in the van was way much and hysterical.

FlaJean · « **Reply #7507 on:** July 17, 2015, 10:07:50 AM »

Joan, I read The Devotion of Suspect X yesterday and really enjoyed it. It seemed a very straight forward murder mystery then towards the end I was surprised at what had actually happened and information about the mathematician. There is an interesting friendship between the physicist and the detective also. I hope his next book is as good.

JoanK · « **Reply #7508 on:** July 17, 2015, 04:04:05 PM »

I'll have to find a way to get it.

I'm torn. I have the latest Joanna Fluke mystery (Double Fudge brownie), and I want to read it. She is on trial for vehicular homicide for the accident she was in in the last book, when the judge is murdered.

Sounds like a good plot, but there have already been so many cookie recipes, I'm off to Trader Joe's to buy cookies. Sigh.

Steph · « **Reply #7509 on:** July 18, 2015, 08:38:07 AM »

I will try that Fluke.. I had gotten too tired of mostly fattening cookie stuff, but that is a plot.

MaryPage · « **Reply #7510 on:** July 19, 2015, 08:14:29 AM »

Steph, if you don't subscribe to Vanity Fair, you will want to grab yourself a copy of the August issue. There is an article about the royal corgis you will love.

Steph · « **Reply #7511 on:** July 19, 2015, 09:10:27 AM »

JoanK · « **Reply #7512 on:** July 19, 2015, 03:24:54 PM »

STEPH: you might want to hold off on the Fluke book. I only got through it by skimming. there are developments in the personal lives of the characters, but in 340 pages there are 40 pages of story and 300 pages of lengthy descriptions of every meal the characters prepared, ate, or even thought about. A brief description and a recipe aren't enough any more. We have to have a ten page description of every step in the preparation of even the simplest dish.

(I never liked her recipes anyway -- too sweet for even sweet-loving me. But they are really getting bizarre. Cookies with catsup in them?)

jane · « **Reply #7513 on:** July 19, 2015, 05:36:20 PM »

Joan...between us, I think Fluke needs to start a new series. She, like Diane Mott Davidson, [for me] ran out of new ideas for plots and ways for her characters to behave, about 7 books ago.

Some authors don't seem to know when to pull the plug on their characters and series. The continual Hannah - Mike - Norman (was it...the dentist) thing -- has been as overdone for me as Goldie's obnoxious son, Arch, and before that the abusive ex...the JERK.

FlaJean · « **Reply #7514 on:** July 19, 2015, 06:19:49 PM »

Joan, Higashino's second book "Salvation of a Saint" is just as interesting as the first one. I really like these characters!

Steph · « **Reply #7515 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:42:28 AM »

ok.. Davidson and Fluke used to be fun, but the plots are not good, the characters are stuck and the recipes are way too full of sugar and butter.. Boo..

marjifay · « **Reply #7516 on:** July 26, 2015, 12:36:16 AM »

I just finished a fascinating mystery/thriller by David Baldacci: MEMORY MAN. About a man who played football in high school, but when he went into a national league, he was tackled in his first game and knocked unconscious. When he work up, he found he had a different brain, one that could forget nothing he read or saw. He becomes a policeman then is promoted to detective. He comes home one night to find his entire family has been killed. Then someone kills 8 or 9 students at the local high school. The rest of the book is the story of how he tracks down the killer(s). Sounds like it might be gory, but it's not -- just suspenseful. Baldacci must have done a lot of research to find out what it's like to have a brain like this character had. (If someone gave him a date that something happened in the past, he could tell the exact day of the week it was.) It was also interesting how Baldacci talked about how sad it was that football players had to endure so such bodily pain later in life after getting knocked around in games simply for people's watching enjoyment. I've never enjoyed watching football games for that reason.

Marj

marjifay · « **Reply #7517 on:** July 26, 2015, 01:19:18 AM »

Malice sounds good, JoanK. I just put it on my library hold list.

Marj

Steph · « **Reply #7518 on:** July 26, 2015, 08:52:52 AM »

I am reading an odd mystery just now. Good Morning Killer by April Smith. I had read her North of Montana some years ago and found this in a local used book store. Very complicated plot just like her first. A FBI agent,female in obsessive love with a local policeman, a kidnapping thatended with violent rape of a teen, all sorts of unfaithful , the plot twists and turns and you or at least, I want to shake the female.. But it is good in an odd sort of way.

JoanK · « **Reply #7519 on:** July 26, 2015, 04:13:40 PM »

Reading a pleasant series about an older woman on the Isle of Mann by Diana Xarissa. The plots are simple, but the Manx background and the cozy feel are nice

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