Memorial Day Weekend -- Labor Day 2018 The Books: Fiction Eric Ambler: The Mask of Dimitrios (new / print) **** Phyllis Bottome: The Lifeline (new / ebook-to-printed-PDF) ***1/2 John le Carré: The Tailor of Panama (revisited on audio, narrated by the author) ****1/2 Agatha Christie: N or M? (revis...
Oh, what a glorious prelude to the 2018 Summer of Spies. Maybe not a "spy" novel in a narrower sense, but writing in 1902 and leagues ahead of her time, Orczy created the first book of what would become a series of perfect swashbucklers, starring a power couple in which the heroine is every bit he...
The premise of the story - there's a secret world right underneath the feet of Londoners, peopled with oddly-shaped, pale citizens - is not new, but still fun. The book is well-written, the characters are interesting, it doesn't pander to its audience...so why was I so bored? I could not pay attenti...
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