This is my last J-B Adamsberg adventure for a while since the newest Temps glacieres (Ice Age) has yet to be translated into English. Sad. Anyway, this novel starts out with Adamsberg covering for a colleague in another arrondissment, asserting that a simple case of natural death (heart attack) is actually murder by bread. It is not long after the events in Kisilova and Adamsberg is still a little unnerved by that whole ordeal. Veyrenc has finally run out of time on his sabbatical and […]
Plog
“Adamsberg was not a man who went in for emotion: he skirted around strong feelings with caution, like swifts who only brush past windows with their wings, never going in, because they know it will be difficult to get out. He had often found dead birds in the village houses back home, imprudent visitors who had ventured inside and never again found their way back to the open air. Adamsberg considered that when it came to love, humans were no wiser than birds.” Another in […]
Comprehensive, informative, entertaining
It took me a while to make my way through this book, which was so kindly loaned to me. There is alot of information here and it took some time to digest, but the text is so charmingly readable and accessable, it felt more like I was having a conversation with a wise old friend. “We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.” Ms. Deppe covers a wealth of material […]
Get some, go again
Henry Rollins is just flat out one of my favorite artists. This dude is one of the hardest working people on the planet. He spent some formative years with Black Flag (if you are into that sort of thing, Get In The Van is an excellent look into the life of a touring band), then founded and fronted The Rollins Band, founded his own publishing company and record label 2/13/61 and put out works by Bill Shields, Nick Cave, Iggy Pop and Exene Cervenka (to name a […]