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To Be Read Challenge
Here’swhat I read this year for the TBR Challenge. A couple of the books I had foronly a couple of years, but most, such as the novels by Simenon and Marshall, I had forabout 15 years. 1/ Maig… -
The Big Sleep
The 11th book of the Yellowthread Street police procedurals was released in 1986. Head First is pretty gruesome: dismembered bodies, coffins, the stench of decay. But inter-culturally speaking, too, it pushes the envelop… -
War Machine
As many as eight installments in the Yellowthread Street mystery series have been on my TBR shelf for around 15 years. So the TBR Challenge motivated me to read them, finally. War Machine (1981) is the eighth police p… -
Hong Kong Mystery
William Marshall’s Perfect End (1981) is the seventh book of the Yellowthread Street police procedurals. The books don’t have to be read in any order as setting of Hong Kong and the characters are consistent (like Charl… -
Another from the TBR Stack
L'Escalier de fer was released in France in 1953 and translated as The Iron Staircase by Eileen Ellenbogen for release in the US in 1963. In his psychological crime novels, Simenon sometimes turned to the theme of family… -
Manners are your True Material
Lately I’ve been reading works regarded as the writer’s second best. Not Kipling’s Kim, but Stalky & Co. Not Vodal’s Creation, but Hollywood. Not Burckhardt’s The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, but The Age… -
So Young
In The Couple from Poitiers (Les Noces de Poitiers, 1946, translation by Eileen Ellenbogen 1985) a young provincial couple moves to Paris to avoid the shame of having a kid too soon after the wedding. They know nada abo… -
Oxymoron: Light-hearted Simenon
Girl in Waiting / A Chit of a Girl (La Marie du port, 1938, translation by Sainsbury, 1949) is the light-hearted story of two sisters from a French fishing village. Odile, the elder, is good-natured and self-indulgent; 1… -
Simenon Hard Novel
In Justice (Cour d'Assises, 1941, translation by Sainsbury, 1949), Petit Louis is a 25-year-old petty crook into living off women as a pimp and gigolo. Petit Louis’ inability to keep his mouth shut lands him in hot water… -
Romans Durs
In Justice (Cour d'Assises, 1941, translation by Sainsbury, 1949), Petit Louis is a 25-year-old petty crook into living off women as a pimp and gigolo. Petit Louis’ inability to keep his mouth shut lands him in hot water…
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