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A lot in here. I might have to get a copy for myself.

Shelving this for awhile. Dense, with pockets of dryness. I feel I should be eating schwarzbrot with unsalted butter when reading.

Shelving this for awhile.This is more than I anticipated: my introduction to Greek Myths was The Wonderful World of Knowledge book from Disney, and this is entirely a different kettle of fish.

Mon Dieu. Quel composition, si grand, ce roman.

I am convinced now that Christopher Fowler and Kate Atkinson must have shared notes or bumped into each other at the library. Reading Peculiar London and Shrines of Gaiety in tandem is rich and thick with resonance.

This improved with more characterizations and funny moments. Glad I stayed with it. And yes it's better than Agatha Christie's _Murder is Easy_.

This is not Thursday Murder Club material. Iffy on continuing while the material maintains the "everyone is a vacanthead except for the protagonist whose anus is too holy and perfect for a mere solar giant to shine out of" jive. How is this rated higher than Agatha Christie's _Easy to Kill_?

Only in the second chapter but the characters seem like people I'd either be or be great friends with. Gentle vibe so far.

Begun on May 23, Douglas Fairbanks Sr,'s birthday. If someone told me a slight, curly-haired slapstick comedian capable of arabesques and awakening desire, and long-legged musical comedy star Charlotte Greenwood were presented early on, I'd have read this as soon as humanly able. Oh yeah, Mr. Fairbanks' second wife features prominently, she's on the cover, standing.

It's fun, fairytaleish, exposition-prattly. It's as if the librarian misclassified this as adult, or the aimed reader was someone whose last book read was twenty years ago, and then they entered high school. I'd enjoy it just as much if it were classified YA, and I'd be less nitpicky about the use of archetypes.

I don't follow Dana Stevens' claim "independent studio model of filmmaking was collapsing under its own weight" argument regarding the box office flop status of "The General."

Keaton wasn't the only comedian who had an independent studio, and the creative control over his films, nor was he the only comedian to release his full-length features for United Artists to distribute.

Bernadette's aversion to Canadians is supposed to be a funny element of her neuroses, and maybe to Los Angelenos, non-Canadian immigrants to the U.S., and Americans running out of nationalities to make fun of it is, but I'm not understanding the humour. Seattleites don't sound much different from Victorians and Vancouverites, take my word for it.

Roller coasters have braking systems, not breaking systems, unless they derail. But Roller coasters don't have breaks. They may break.
I hate proofreading blips like this.

Jumping back and forth over the "well researched" -- "celebrity coincidences" line.