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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7% complete! Christina has read 4 of 52 books.
Released in USA as "Stick Your Neck Out".
I seriously wonder if whoever thought up Bob and Doug McKenzie for "SCTV" upon CRTC requirements for "more Canadian content" had read The Incomparable Atuk first.
Exciting action in The Blue Lotus, a thrill or a twist on every page.
Incongruous assortment of Studio 58 retrospective photos with vague and/or common advice.
When Julia is cleaning a 15th century Flemish painting, in a corner she finds the words: "Who killed the knight?" …
Fredric Brown's The Fabulous Clipjoint comes from a now-vanished world of crime fiction that once …
Since Night of the Jabberwock, Fredric Brown's style and imaginative plots awakened my desire to read more of his improbable grit and wacky noir. This tale didn't disappoint.
A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female …
Fast entertaining read, with real-life powerful women in early Hollywood as characters and closely accurate reporting of historical events and persons.
This book offers beginner a smart way to learn qigong (chi kung), the ancient Chinese …
Want to know the history of Qigong? Here it is.
Want to know the posture, stance, movements of each exercise? He Pre they are.
Want to know what organs are stimulated or treated in each exercise? Read and learn.
Want the sitting position for each? Dr. Jwing-Ming Yang supplies.
Want a glossary of translated terms? Granted.
This fave rave in my corner of the planet I'd meant to read for decades, the stories appear to be transcribed from radio. Readers who love bucolic getaways where fresh coffee and classic and Canadian literature can be had, book lists, and recipes, will love this.
Left alone when Rush, Mark, and Mona go away to boarding school, Randy and Oliver …
Another excellent item in my Childish Comfort collection
This may have changed/saved my life.
A dying billionaire sends one woman and a cast of dreamers and rivals on a citywide treasure hunt in this …
I had this on hold before the James Curtis' biography of Buster Keaton. The Curtis book came in first and I agree with Kevin Brownlow that it's a wow. I don't need a Slate film editor to tell me what in Buster's century-plus-ago filmography is problematic to sensitive audiences. Lots of overlap too, one can imagine each craning their neck over to copy each other's notes, or waiting until the other returned their sources to the library. I could have given this an extra star if it were the only Keaton book I read this year, and it's not a Keaton biography, Camera Man is more than that, there are essays on Mabel Normand and Robert E. Sherwood for example. Being able to look at the referenced May 1916 Harper's Weekly issue on archive.org in which Minnie Maddern Fiske and Robert Grau both write about Chaplin's eye-popping contract with the …
I had this on hold before the James Curtis' biography of Buster Keaton. The Curtis book came in first and I agree with Kevin Brownlow that it's a wow. I don't need a Slate film editor to tell me what in Buster's century-plus-ago filmography is problematic to sensitive audiences. Lots of overlap too, one can imagine each craning their neck over to copy each other's notes, or waiting until the other returned their sources to the library. I could have given this an extra star if it were the only Keaton book I read this year, and it's not a Keaton biography, Camera Man is more than that, there are essays on Mabel Normand and Robert E. Sherwood for example. Being able to look at the referenced May 1916 Harper's Weekly issue on archive.org in which Minnie Maddern Fiske and Robert Grau both write about Chaplin's eye-popping contract with the Mutual Film Company keeps this a solid three out of five stars.
I can argue against a claim or two from what I know about silent film production history.
