What Are You Reading

[Tomasso]

 

[HadleyH]

"Virgil Thomson" by Virgil Thomson.

Boring about 80% .... but that 20% where he talks about his life in Paris in the 1920s makes it worthwhile .

 

[Touchofevil]

Sam Eastland's Archive 17. It's book three in the fabulous Inspector Pekkala series.

 

[C44Antelope]

Rex Stout's "In the Best Families" Archie finds himself on his own returning to the Brownstone to find the door wide open and a note addressed to A.G. that reads "...don't look for me. N.W."

Good stuff, if you like the Nero Wolfe books

 

[Cochese]

The Man in the High Castle. It's a shame I hadn't gotten to PKD's works until now.

 

[DNO]

Unknown Soldiers by Neil Hanson. Non-ficiton book dealing with the missing soldiers from the First World War.

 

[tropicalbob]

Two Austrian writers from the 20's and 30's. The first is Robert Walser, about whom I can only advise anyone to read Susan Sontag's piece on him. Peculiar, beautiful, and absolutely engrossing. There is truly no one quite like him. The other is Robert Musil, who wrote only one book -- The Man Without Qualities --, which he wrote over the course of his life. Besides the masterful descriptions (see his description of a nightclub singer in the early part of the book), his telling of the takeover of the world by the modern businessman and the very beginnings of Nazism are unparalelled.

 

[Maudelynn]

Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, Book 2) by Jacqueline Winspear
and
Scandal at the Savoy; The Infamous 1920's Murder Case by Andrew Rose

 

[splintercellsz]

October 1937 National Geographic (Found this in a pile of my Great-Grandfathers music books).

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish.

Really fantastic.

 

[Touchofevil]

Ross MacDonald's Meet Me at the Morgue (1953). Not a Lew Archer story, instead it is probation officer Howard Cross who takes the lead this time.

 

[cw3pa]

Just started "Leave it to Psmith". Copyright 1924 by P.G. Wodehouse.

 

[splintercellsz]

Here are pics of the National Geographic I mentioned above.

 

[Tomasso]

Don't be perusing that copy of NG for bare breasted native women.......[bad]

 

[AmateisGal]

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

 

[LizzieMaine]

Here are pics of the National Geographic I mentioned above.

The timing of the "Changing Shanghai" article couldn't be more unfortunate.

 

[jamespowers]

The timing of the "Changing Shanghai" article couldn't be more unfortunate.

Yes considering the actions in Manchuria and the battle Chang Kai Shek had on his hands at the time.

 

[MisterCairo]

Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell:

http://www.harpercollins.com/author...sbn13=9780060956851&displayType=bookinterview

 

[Alice Blue]

Just finished Nella Last's War. That book is the next best thing to time travel.

 

[Harp]

Maritain, Les Degres du Savoir