Lifelong faves: mysteries, camp, cookbooks, young adult literature, satire. Niches: early film history, lifehacks, The Shadow, codes and ciphers, 20th-c. comic strip compilations, programming/data manuals for nonprogrammers, neurodivergent bright female characters, help for ADHD undiagnosed people. Growing interest in French literature, early 20th century psychological fiction. Top five at present: E. Waugh, R. Chandler, Alan Bradley, Agatha Christie, Gyles Brandreth, T. Sharpe Finished From the Abyss by D K Broster but unable to import it.
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Although my name appears on the title page, the real author of this book is …
Sweet, gentle, funny tale of a moving bookshop in early 20th century New England.
Passing in review here is the silent film era and Mr. Brownlow has done a …
I learned so much more about the engineering wizardry, pioneering of camera effects, and the pre-studio system era in the seven hours spent reading this book than I had in the last forty years.
Lots of overlap with Walter Kerr's The Silent Clowns for the silent comedians, happy to see a chapter with Reginald Denny.
Written as a sequel to "The Warden", this is the second book of the Barsetshire …
At last! My summer read is read! In the summer! Funny biting book.
Records the relationship of Dewey and Yvette, two high school dropouts working in a hospital.
Paul Zindel: My darling, my hamburger (Hardcover, 1993, HarperCollins Publishers)
Four high school seniors struggle with the responsibilities of growing up, particularly the problems of an intimate relationship
Inventive, Clever, Charming cartoons about books and the writing of them.
Offers selected pages from the author's illustrated notebooks kept during a three year period when …
Helpful for learning to see and to open the eyes and in turn the creativity parts of the brain. Inspiring.
Luke Fitzwilliam, a retired colonial policeman has returned to England and chances to converse on a train with a woman …
Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper of Prydain, faces even more dangers as he seeks the magical Black …
more enjoyable than the first, thanks to plotted character development
