Always interesting titles in the paperback section. Bridge Detective!

I like this bookshop, but every time I visit, I'm slightly terrified the Big One will hit, and I will die in an earthquake-induced book avalanche.

Finkel offers to look for job openings for Knight: "quiet jobs like security guard or librarian". And I am now laughing too hard to keep reading.

"we can assume that these friendships are lightweight" - No, we cannot. Some of my closest friends - people I communicate with near daily and about significant matters - are people I not only met online, but also are physically distant, so our communication continues to take place almost exclusively online.

Probably a bad sign for me that I just paused reading to post this, huh?

I got bookmail today, and Moriarty is intrigued.

"You don't manage five minutes and wind up with six" - yes, I do think of this every time I hear the phrase "time management"

This gift from my dad arrived on "the second day after Christmas" in a shiny blue bag, which is amazingly appropriate. (See: "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle")

Staff Picks shelf at After Words in Chicago. John, you have good taste. That Carter book is going home with me.

A couple new arrivals at my library

"That name was something no true Chicagoan would ever call the Sears Tower." True. Bailey, I winced right along with you.

This came today, courtesy of a GoodReads giveaway. Thanks, @penguinusa !

Legs hold a torso away from the earth. / And a regular high poem of legs is here. (From "The Walking Man of Rodin")

I feel this is a highly appropriate bookmark.

"Sandow's [...] devotees included many average people, as well as famous figures such as Arthur Conan Doyle." Who, undoubtedly, would not be nearly as amused as I am to discover his name at the bottom of page 221.

My fountain pens are not as fancy (or well-kept, sadly), as hers are.

That's impressive, given the book is set in 1931, and Superman first appeared in Action Comics in 1938.

In honor of Dr Doyle's birthday, I think I'll read something I found recently at my used bookshop. (1909 edition)

I will forgive the movie title rebranding to have a hardcover copy of Basil of Baker Street in my hands.

Thanks, Edelweiss!

"But the truth is, a movie serves its fans, not the actors. If the fans want Spartan alive, they get him alive. Their opinion is the only one that matters.”

I enjoyed SMARTER FASTER BETTER so much I had to go back and read this one.

Ran across a copy in the thrift store for $1. Obviously, it had to come home with me.