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Summary: Excellent work
Review: Fans of the series will find "G" IS FOR GRAFTON: THE WORLD OF KINSEY MILLHONE a very entertaining look at their superheroine. This book is an update of the 1998 Edgar Award winning work. This biographical fiction/biography appears all encompassing as it takes the reader inside the head of Kinsey by analyzing the "A" through "O" novels as well as providing insight into the Millhone creator, Sue Grafton. This is a complete look at the fictional in your face detective that is must reading for fans. The index allows the audience to pick and choose topics, but reading the book from cover to cover is fun for fans that want to get inside the minds of the character and its author. Harriet Klausner
Rating:
Summary: Excellent work
Review: Fans of the series will find "G" IS FOR GRAFTON: THE WORLD OF KINSEY MILLHONE a very entertaining look at their superheroine. This book is an update of the 1998 Edgar Award winning work. This biographical fiction/biography appears all encompassing as it takes the reader inside the head of Kinsey by analyzing the "A" through "O" novels as well as providing insight into the Millhone creator, Sue Grafton. This is a complete look at the fictional in your face detective that is must reading for fans. The index allows the audience to pick and choose topics, but reading the book from cover to cover is fun for fans that want to get inside the minds of the character and its author. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Everything you wanted to know
Review: G IS FOR GRAFTON, won the 1998 Edgar Award for best Biographical work. Kinsey Millhone's world is one that many of us have been visiting for eighteen years through the pages of Grafton's popular alphabet detective series. By now with Grafton more than half way through the alphabet, many readers have become thoroughly addicted to this appealing private detective who lives and works in Santa Teresa, California. So naturally we want to know every single thing about her. Kinsey's combination of toughness and vunerabilty, bravery and intellectual keenness, compassion and aloofness, engages a wide range of reader of all ages and careers. Kinsey's ability to defeat the enemy in a terrifying final confrontation. The personal struggles that she goes through in order to do the clean-up, reassure us that our own fears and phobias are both normal and manageable. If Kinsey is scared of getting an injection from the nurse, yet is capable of running after a murderer and tackling him to the ground, then maybe we can gather up nerve to go on with our daily lives. Each chapter of the book explores some aspect of Kinsey's life or character, beginning with the specifics of her biography, her daily life, her friends, her favorite places, and her work. Readers may want to use the table of contents which is detailed enough to allow a reader who, for example, wants to know how Kinsey found Henry Pitts and her apartment or when her apartment was bombed and rebuilt, can learn the answer in chapter 3: Kinsey's daily life under apartments. In Chapter 4 you will find out why you will never know her full name. This book is a very informative book about an intriguing character that most of us love. We learn everything about Kinsey and everything in her life that we ever wanted to know. What a wonderful book.
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Summary: Everything you wanted to know
Review: G IS FOR GRAFTON, won the 1998 Edgar Award for best Biographical work. Kinsey Millhone's world is one that many of us have been visiting for eighteen years through the pages of Grafton's popular alphabet detective series. By now with Grafton more than half way through the alphabet, many readers have become thoroughly addicted to this appealing private detective who lives and works in Santa Teresa, California. So naturally we want to know every single thing about her. Kinsey's combination of toughness and vunerabilty, bravery and intellectual keenness, compassion and aloofness, engages a wide range of reader of all ages and careers. Kinsey's ability to defeat the enemy in a terrifying final confrontation. The personal struggles that she goes through in order to do the clean-up, reassure us that our own fears and phobias are both normal and manageable. If Kinsey is scared of getting an injection from the nurse, yet is capable of running after a murderer and tackling him to the ground, then maybe we can gather up nerve to go on with our daily lives. Each chapter of the book explores some aspect of Kinsey's life or character, beginning with the specifics of her biography, her daily life, her friends, her favorite places, and her work. Readers may want to use the table of contents which is detailed enough to allow a reader who, for example, wants to know how Kinsey found Henry Pitts and her apartment or when her apartment was bombed and rebuilt, can learn the answer in chapter 3: Kinsey's daily life under apartments. In Chapter 4 you will find out why you will never know her full name. This book is a very informative book about an intriguing character that most of us love. We learn everything about Kinsey and everything in her life that we ever wanted to know. What a wonderful book.
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Summary: G is for Great
Review: I am fortunate enough to know both of these talented women, and can say with no reservation that G is for Grafton is well written and thouroughly researched. Any fan of Sue Grafton's alter ego will be amazed at how many details about Kinsey's life are here, at a glance.
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Summary: G is for Grafton elevates the mystery genre
Review: I loved revisiting one of my favorite characters through this unique text that combines literary criticsm with prose that is like a visit with your next door neighbor( if you had a next door neighbor as interesting as Kinsey). One of the most vexing things about the content of this book is that I learned that my mental images of Kinsey's apartment and it's spatial relationship to Henry's house are incorrect. I've decided to stay with my own mental imagery, rather than changing to the "correct" versions offered in the schmatic drawings in the book. I also loved the photographs of Kinsey's jogging path and her office. G is for Grafton might more correctly be titled, K is for Kinsey. It is a wonderful read that reminds one of a conversation with a long, lost friend. I loved revisiting her cases and recalling how much I enjoyed reading each of them. I will continue to refer to the charting of her cases as I read O,P,Q... Kaufman and Kay are to be congratulated on their careful treatment of Kinsey and Grafton's body of work.
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Summary: If you love Kinsey and Grafton you MUST read this!
Review: I thought this was the usual nonfiction treatment on a popular novelist, like those I have read about Stephen King or Dean Koontz or a character like Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt. I was greatly surprised. This was WONDERFUL. The authors offer an amazing amount of info on subjects like Kinsey's biography, personality, daily life and personal relationships and then describes the world she inhabits. It includes photos of 'Santa Teresa', maps and even floor plans! The topics are fully explored with appropriate quotes from Grafton's novels and other works, showing Kinsey's depth of character and unique humor. What was even more unexpected and very enjoyable were the chapters on the social problems evident in the works and the deeper philosophical question, is justice possible? I loved the treatment of Grafton's writing style which pointed out things I had never noticed. An added bonus exlored the origination of the detective novel - I never knew! Fantastic! I can not understand any negative reviews. This was endlessly fascinating and my reading of Grafton will be forever enriched by this wonderful treatment. I can not praise this enough. I am very grateful to Kaufman and Kay and glad I found this gem. Thanks!
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Summary: Great book for Millhone/Grafton fans!
Review: If you're a fan of the Kinsey Millhone series of books by Ms Grafton, you'll love this book. If not... well, it won't make much sense to you. Of course, that also means you need to start reading Grafton's novels, so get cracking, would you? :)
Rating:
Summary: Great book for Millhone/Grafton fans!
Review: If you're a fan of the Kinsey Millhone series of books by Ms Grafton, you'll love this book. If not... well, it won't make much sense to you. Of course, that also means you need to start reading Grafton's novels, so get cracking, would you? :)
Rating: 
Summary: Don't waste your money.
Review: One of my proudest days as a mystery writer came the July day that I participated on the same MWA/UCLA mystery literature program as Sue Grafton. Ms. Grafton was the event's keynote speaker. I was one of a couple of dozen other author-presenters. Sue Grafton is the reigning queen of American mystery fiction, and G IS FOR GRAFTON proves that point conclusively. In this book, Natalie Hevener Kaufman & Carol McGinnis Kay have written a biography of Ms. Grafton's lead character, Kinsey Millhone. Kaufman and Kay had Ms. Grafton's cooperation in preparing this work, and they have done a terrific job. Everything you ever wanted to know about Kinsey but didn't know enough to ask, is covered here. Kaufman and Kay have achieved a remarkable accomplishment. This book is must read for any serious Grafton fan or informed reader of the mystery genre. I especially enjoyed the "photographic record" of Kinsey's life, including snapshots of her home, her offices, her car, her jogging path, and several other scenes from Santa Teresa. G IS FOR GRAFTON is a great book.
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