Turns out I no longer owned a copy of ToC in any form, tattered or clean. I think it got bundled with the lot I dumped at GW prior to the Baltimore move. So I ordered a copy through Abe Books from some dealer in Wisconsin, and what I received in the mail almost takes my breath away. For 6 USD, I received a vintage 1961 Black Cat paperback edition that looks like it was never opened. This book looks like it came directly from the paperback stands of a drug store in 1961. The cover is flawless, the binding is unbroken, and the pages smell like a library. Just amazing. The cover price is 95 cents.
I'm enjoying it so far. Maybe it's age, but I appreciate now more than when I first read it at 19.
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Modernist Estates by Stefi Orazi, a tour through some of Britain's best housing of the 20th century, largely focused on London council estates. I look forward to visiting a few when the weather picks up.
http://www.thingsyoucanbuy.co.uk/modernistestates/modernist-estates-the-buildings-and-the-people-who-live-in-them-today
There was a discount code of 'Modernist20' which gave 20% off anything on her site, not sure if this still valid.
Jean-Claude Izzo's Total Chaos. Not a great piece of fiction by a long shot, nor is the translation up to much but it makes me want to visit Marseilles.
Just finished Bryan Cranston's autobiography. Very well structured. A few gaps in the story of his life but overall its well told. One or two weak chapters but I highly recommend it if you have any interest in the man or the jobbing actors life before it takes traction.
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'The way we live now' Trollope
Useless, idle aristocrats gambling what they have not got and trying to marry into money to solve their problems.
Dodgy money men a bit like Sir Shifty nowadays.
Non-fiction I'm reading the Pendulum Years by Bernard Levin, fiction reading the first Ripley book.
"Agent Zigzag" by Ben Macintyre, about British double agent Eddie Chapman.
It would have made a good long magazine piece. The book loses a lot of steam in the last third.