As a person of mixed race (White mother, Black father) who loves the blues, I thought that a book like Half-Blood Blues (featuring several mixed race characters and blues) would be right up my alley.  It was not.  In fact, it took me nearly a week to read the first 50 pages and I was bored to death almost the whole time.  On page 54 things finally (finally!) got interesting from a story standpoint, but I still had to contend with the writing, which never took off for me.  This is in part because I struggle with reading dialogue written […]