Monday, July 29, 2013

new wine in old bottles




The Irishman John Banville is one of my favorite writers.  Moody, anguished, inventive.  Here he is in a new incarnation as Benjamin Black, writer of fine, moody, anguished, inventive mysteries.  This is his first and I recommend it highly.  I finished it on the way home from Bozeman.  Also finished David McCullough's A Greater Journey:  Americans in Paris.  Every single page was a feast.  What would I give to have been in Paris in the 19th century when it was THE place to be.  Wonderful.



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Liz says:

Also read "The Paris Wife," novel about Hemingway & 1st wife, and their life in those magical days in Paris, Spain, etc. Based on real research, but fictionalized. The woman was a saint...

Look it up on Amazon.

mary ann said...

I put this book on my "to read" list, thank you!

ddmichel said...

hello - are you there - miss you!!