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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
You guys are making me want to re-read Chandler again  I just downloaded all I could find on MR.
In the meantime, I'm almost finished with The City and The City. Enjoyable but not Miéville's best, I think. I'm also reading Virgin with Butterflies, a Harlequin "vintage" book from the 1950's. I love this kind of books and remember buying one or two in the used books booths along the Seine when I was a student. This one is delightfully funny, naive and old-fashioned, and the main character is very lovable (although a bit too naive sometimes, but she's smart too. And I guess naive was something a young woman was supposed to be in these days. She is also, of course, very virtuous and constantly escaping from the paws of mean men trying to attempt to her virtue, or virtuous men wanting to marry her. I think I know which one will get her in the end). |
Finished both books yesterday, and I'm now reading The High Window by Raymond Chandler. I have a fond memory of this one because it was (I think) the first I read from him.