B&B

This movie and I did not start off on the best foot. As the title appeared on the screen, I said, “Please let this not have subtitles. I have read all day long.” Now, looking back on the movie, I didn’t dislike it, but I really think that subtitles take away from the fantasy-like experience [...]

This is going to be a short post, but let me just say that I would hate to be the actress playing Janet in the version of the Glass Key that we just finished watching. I really wonder how the actress (Veronica Lake) felt about the character she portrayed. Although Janet was witty at times [...]

As I was browsing through some poetry I came across this poem by Gjertrud Schnackenberg:
Signs
Threading the palm, a web of little lines
Spells out the lost money, the heart, the head,
The wagging tongues, the sudden deaths, in signs
We would smooth out, like imprints on a bed,
In signs that can’t be helped, geese heading south,
In signs read [...]

So… This first post is going to be on The Glass Key, which I just finished. As I was reading the book tonight, a few things caught my eye. First, on page 162, I noticed that Madvig was being referred to as “the blond man”. At first I thought that there was some character in [...]

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