Let's see...Antony Beever's massive The Second World War (I'm digesting it a bit at a time). Just finished Kristina McMorris's Bridges of Scarlet Leaves, a novel about the Japanese-American internment during WW2. Pretty great historical details on this one.
Blood on the Moon by James Ellroy. Incidently, Ellroy dedicated this book to the underappreciated Kenneth Millar (A.K.A. Ross Macdonald)!
Marilyn in Fashion: The Enduring Influence of Marilyn Monroe by Christopher Nickens & George Zeno
Elegance is good taste, plus a dash of daring - Carmel Snow
On a Gaston Leroux kick at the moment, Phantom of the Opera the other week and Mystery of the Yellow Room this week. I watched L'Hermier's 1930 film adaptation of the Yellow Room a little while back and that got me re-interested in the author.
"As a kid, I used to abide by the judgment of Brooks Brothers in New York. I think I'm away from that now."
-Fred Astaire
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, When God Made Hell about the WWI campaign in Mesopotamia and a biography on Mortimer Wheeler.
Exploring The Victorian World - my blog on Victorian England and Beyond.
Just finished the slim autobiography, "A Colored Man's Journey Through 20th Century Segregated America," by Earl Hutchinson, Sr.
1. John 3:16, 17
2. Dress to please yourself, but do take others into some consideration.
-Lee
Nicholas Jennings' fascinating look at the music scene in Toronto in the 1960's: Before the Gold Rush. What a time...Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Lightfoot, Rick James, Ronnie Hawkins, Robbie Robertson, Denny Doherty, Leon Helms, etc. Wow.
Oh, and Dean Koontz's 77 Shadow Street.
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David
Kafka on the Shore
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear. ~ Herman Melville
Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir.
Gulag Archipelago Volume 1...
"Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen." - Ayn Rand
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