Booking Through Thursday


 

Booking Through Discuss!

 

Do you like to talk about what you read? Do you have somebody to talk WITH?
 
 
 
Of course i like to talk about books. Especially the ones that i like very much. I always try to transfer a part of the excitement i felt when i read them. Sometimes i even overdo it because some people are just not interested. I guess it's because i don't know anybody who reads as much i i do. So no, i don't really have someone to talk with. But now, i have a blog so i don't have to badger people into reading. :)


Teaser Tuesday/Tune in Tuesday


Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:





• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!




"The work time that followed was a taciturn time. They bent their heads diligently—what they read will be discovered later—and looked up at each other almost sullenly. Snow fell. And fell. The white lawn rose to meet the library window."

Possession by A. S.  Byatt














Tune in Tuesday is hosted by Ginger at GReads! It's a nice way to share some music and see what other people like.









First time i heard this song i didn't know a word of Spanish but i still loved it. Now i know enough to understand the lyrics and i love it even more. :)

The Big Sleep


The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler





“It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. 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.”







On a rainy October morning, Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe is on his way to see General Sternwood. General needs help in dealing with Arthur Gwynn Geiger, dealer in rare books who is trying to blackmail him with some gambling notes signed by General’s younger daughter Carmen. It almost seems too easy and Marlowe takes the job. On his way out he is summoned by General’s older daughter Vivian who is wondering if her father hired Marlowe to find her missing husband Rusty Regan.
Marlowe is soon facing blackmail, pornography and dead bodies. There is far more to this case then meets the eye.

The Big Sleep is the first Raymond Chandler novel featuring LA detective Philip Marlowe. It was first published in 1939 and it has been adapted into film twice.
This is the first Philip Marlowe mystery I read and I must say it is a total breath of fresh air. Marlowe is wonderfully witty, mysterious and dry. He has a level of cynicism that I find very captivating. It perfectly reflects historic background, 1930’s depression years.
Other characters are also very complex. Everybody seems to be involved in some criminal activity whether they want to or not. It was not easy to survive in those days.

The weather plays a mayor role in The Big Sleep. Every scene is prepared by a description of the weather. It adds to the dark atmosphere that shrouds the whole story.  
Raymond Chandler created one of the legendary characters. Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe seem to be quintessential detective figures. They are all a private eye should be. And they are certainly an inspiration for many detectives that came after them.

The Big Sleep is one of the finest detective stories I have ever read.


“It was close to eleven when I put my car away and walked around to the front of the Hobart Arms. The plate-glass door was put on the lock at ten, so I had to get my keys out. Inside, in the square barren lobby, a man put a green evening paper down beside a potted palm and flicked a cigarette butt into the tub the palm grew in. He stood up and waved his hat at me and said: "The boss wants to talk to you. You sure keep your friends waiting, pal."


Booking Trough Thursday

 

Booking Through Sniffle

 

What was the most emotional read you have ever had?



Well, i'm not an overly emotional person and i rarely cry in any situation but i do remember feeling ever so sorry for Jo in Little Women just before Professor Bhaer came to her. The whole family was happy and Jo was happy for them but she felt so lonely and missed Beth. That scene always made me sad.


 

Teaser Tuesday/Tune in Tuesday


Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:





• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!




"There was a gusty wind blowing in at the windows and the soot from the oil burners of the hotel next door was down-drafted into the room and rolling across the top of the desk like tumbleweed drifting across a vacant lot. I was thinking about going out to lunch and that life was pretty flat and that it would probably be just as flat if I took a drink and that taking a drink all alone at that time of day wouldn't be any fun anyway."

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 











Tune in Tuesday is hosted by Ginger at GReads! It's a nice way to share some music and see what other people like.










I've been listening to this song a lot lately, combination between Paul McCartney's voice and Johnny Depp's face is beautiful.


 

Death at La Fenice


Death at La Fenice
Donna Leon


 
“The third gong, announcing that the opera was about to continue, sounded discreetly through the lobbies and bars of Teatro La Fenice. In response, the audience stabbed out cigarettes, finished drinks and conversations, and started to filter back into the theater. The hall, brightly lit between acts, hummed with the talk of those returning to their seats. Here a jewel flashed, there a mink cape was adjusted over a naked shoulder or an infinitesimal speck of dust was flicked from a satin lapel. The upper galleries filled up first, followed by the orchestra seats and then the three rows of boxes.”





Famous German conductor Maestro Wellauer was found dead in his dressing room at the begging of the third act of Traviata. It seems that he has been poisoned. Police is called and the first one at the scene is Commissario Guido Brunetti. Maestro Wellauer was a world renowned conductor and Commisario has to find his killer quickly. But that’s not easy. Helmuth Wellauer was an enigmatic person. Genius musician but not very liked as a human being.  Commissario Brunetti has his work cut out for him because he has to find the truth in the sea of suspects.

This is the first in series of books staring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Donna Leon wrote 19 more. It’s also the first one I read and I like it. Guido Brunetti is my kind of detective. A bit tired, a bit sarcastic but calm and good at what he does. He really loves Venice, not as a tourist would but as a man who knows all her secrets. As you read on a part of that love rubs of on you. You start thinking of Venice as a part of the story, as it’s most glamorous participant.

Donna Leons writing is light, fluent and uncomplicated. I like how she separates Brunetties quiet family life from the brutality of his police work. It makes you think that he can do both. I also loved the way she describes Venice, you can imagine the atmosphere perfectly.

This is not a spectacular book but it has all the right pieces for a nice, little crime story. I’m looking forward to reading the second one.



“The darkness of the night hid the moss that crept up the steps of the palazzi lining the Grand Canal, obscured the cracks in the walls of churches, and covered the patches of plaster missing from the facades of public buildings. Like many women of a certain age, the city needed the help of deceptive light to recapture her vanished beauty. A boat that, during the day, was making a delivery of soap powder or cabbages, at night became a numinous form, floating toward some mysterious destination. The fogs that were common in these winter days could transform people and objects, even turn long-haired teenagers, hanging around a street corner and sharing a cigarette, into mysterious phantoms from the past.”



Teaser Tuesday


Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:





• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!


Hello, my first time here and my teaser is from The Lady of the Shroud. Just started reading so it's from the beginning. 


 

"Presently I made out that the boat, which had all along seemed to be of a queer shape, was none other than a Coffin, and that the woman standing up in it was clothed in a shroud.  Her back was towards us, and she had evidently not heard our approach. "

The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker



 

Welcome


Hi, I’m Stasha and welcome to RWT. :)  

The reason I started this blog is my love of reading. I’ve been reading books since I can remember (thanks to my dad) and always feel exited when I read a really good one. I hope to pass some of that excitement to others. :)
Of course some books leave a bigger mark than others but I will try to write something about every book I finish.

Every opinion in here is mine. I don’t think of them as right or wrong, it’s just how I experienced these books.

Also, as English is not my birth language, forgive me if I make any mistakes.