What a great book. I bought it thinking I would dip into it over the coming months and ended up reading it all in two days. It’s full of fascinating detail about the mechanics of managing such a shop, not to mention a few rants about threats to such booksellers posed by the Amazon juggernaut. …
Pretty Girls
There are a few plot devices I’ve grown really tired of over the years.One is Our Hero Going Undercover. Another is Our Hero(es) Taken Hostage. Theone I dislike the most is Murdered Girls. I really don’t like watching - or reading about - womenbeing terrorized by brutal men, especially when the Tense Music plays and …
Maus (I & II)
This is where I start walking through a field of eggs, ever, ever so careful where I put my feet. Because these two books are about The Holocaust, and based on the actual experiences of the author’s father, and how could I possibly be anything less than stunned by their achievement? I have no …
Two Kinds of Truth
I’d be repeating myself if I said anything more about Michael Connelly than I’ve said here. All I can really do is note that this book is really two kinds of story. In one, Harry Bosch solves a double murder and Goes Undercover! There’s a lot of fascinating detail about how an illegal OxyContin-buying ring …
