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21 may 2013

This will be a brief note on Cyrus Fisher's 1947 Newbery Honor Book The Avion My Uncle Flew, not a full-scale review. I'm trying to make notes on Newbery winners across the decades, and some just don't seem all that readable anymore, but I hate to ignore them altogether.     read more


20 may 2013

London Boulevard features a nasty narrator that you get to like in spite of his nastiness, till he spins off into conduct so appalling that even a fan of hard-boileds is hard-pressed to keep up.     read more


19 may 2013

La guinguette à deux sous looks to my untrained American eye like a rather elegant title, but it translates to something like "The Two-Bit Roadhouse."     read more


16 may 2013

Reading Michael Connelly's novels in an order dictated solely by when I find them for 99¢ in the thrift store makes for a lot of pleasant surprises. In A Darkness More Than Night, an assortment of Connelly's stock characters mix and match in the course of a twisty mystery plot and some lugubrious reflections on human nature.     read more

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