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    The Big Sleep

    The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Published: 1939 Series: Philip Marlowe #1 Length: 231 pages With each novel I read, I become more and more a fan of Raymond Chandler. He has such a great way with words, his character descriptions are brilliant, and his novels are a blast to read. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars. Writing a synopsis of one of these novels is tough. The plots tend to twist all over and are difficult to keep track of, but this one begins…

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    What We See When We Read

    What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund Published: 2014 Length: 425 pages Peter Mendelsund is a book cover designer, so I imagine he’s someone who’s spent a lot of time considering how to visualize what we see in our mind’s eye while reading a novel. I’ve been a fairly avid reader my entire life, but I never really stopped to consider what I’m actually picturing as I read and how that might differ from what others are seeing. I was really enjoying this at first. It’s a fascinating concept and the book is formatted in a really fun way, with diagrams and illustrations that make it feel like…

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    May in Review

    Books Acquired: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson City of Thieves by David Benioff The Human Factor by Graham Greene Thud! by Terry Pratchett A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie The Lost World by Michael Crichton The Star’s Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton The Club Of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Boneshaker by Cherie Priest Ship Breaker by…