First off, I totally agree on the so much first person POV in published stuff right now - you can't find a novel without it. That said the only thing I've read lately and would recommend was first person POV - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Nifenegger...
As for Booth thinking about the long, lean lines of his body LMAO. I hear you. I also get annoyed when he gets one whiff of Brennan's perfume, or the soap she just used in the shower and is an immediate olfactory savant - 'she smelled of jasmine and sandalwood with a hint of wild orchid' - like Booth would know what any of those things smelled like (well, maybe the sandalwood but who doesn't get knocked over at ten feet by that stuff)... anyway, I digress...
As for the, "Honey I'm home," she grinned. I do that! And I realise it's not strictly speaking correct, but I'm not sure it matters either. It's one of those grey areas for me where the rules of language butt up against my liking for stuff being a little off the wall... and my tendency to want to bend the rules at all times (not just in writing). One of my favourite writers is Irvine Welsh. He writes in a kind of stream of consciousness way, without even speech marks etcetera. Somehow it sucks you in to the real human behind the dialogue.
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As for Booth thinking about the long, lean lines of his body LMAO. I hear you. I also get annoyed when he gets one whiff of Brennan's perfume, or the soap she just used in the shower and is an immediate olfactory savant - 'she smelled of jasmine and sandalwood with a hint of wild orchid' - like Booth would know what any of those things smelled like (well, maybe the sandalwood but who doesn't get knocked over at ten feet by that stuff)... anyway, I digress...
As for the, "Honey I'm home," she grinned. I do that! And I realise it's not strictly speaking correct, but I'm not sure it matters either. It's one of those grey areas for me where the rules of language butt up against my liking for stuff being a little off the wall... and my tendency to want to bend the rules at all times (not just in writing). One of my favourite writers is Irvine Welsh. He writes in a kind of stream of consciousness way, without even speech marks etcetera. Somehow it sucks you in to the real human behind the dialogue.
I'm not sure that made any sense now!
Lastly.. "Go away," she hissed... hee :) So true!
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