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I'm on page 96, almost 500 pages to go...am i going to make it? Our hero is a retired policeman, living an hour outside Montreal. He is now in charge of the police academy. He does not like guns. So far he has had dinner at a bistro run by the gay male owners. The circle of friends there includes a black woman, she might be a lesbian, I forget, and an obnoxious eccentric poet with a duck. The academy includes a

Utterly depressing. Pretty one dimensional

I love this author and so far she does not disappoint.

I think, based on this reading and The Quest For the Red Sulphur, that Claude Addas needs her own Shams i-Tabrisi.

so far a fun and informative read. Schiff's descriptions of Alexandria and Egypt are stunning and witty. Here's a sample sentence:
And he had no experience of lush Ptolemaic bureaucracy, the natural fruit of an administration-proud, papyrus-rich culture with a planned and centralized economy and an unaccountable passion for records and censuses.