Americana
A dash through the Miami Airport’s Books & Books depot left me with these three gems. Guess I was in a gringo mood as all three choices are all about the States. I even bought my first girly young adult book. Could it be that America invented adolescence? Happy Sunday to all.
That time
The Lady in the Lake, Raymond Chandler. Read Spain 2013
A luscious mantrap
Recently, The Paris Review’s tumblr did a small piece on the 125th anniversary of Raymond Chandler‘s birth. The piece featured a photo of the original cover of his novel The Big Sleep, the book that first brought us Philip Marlowe, private eye. The caption on the cover, below, is too good to be true. “A […]