Roaring 20s...and 30s...and 40s

[joyeuse13]

Reading-wise, I've been on an early 20th century kick lately. I started with Norma Miller's autobiography, Swingin' at the Savoy, continued with Flapper, by Joshua Zeitz, a history of the Jazz Era, then moved on to Art Spiegelman's Maus comics about the experiences of an Auschwitz survivor (where the Jews are drawn as mice and the Nazis as cats),

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[selenite]

Maus is powerful. Sometimes too powerful. When I reached the line "And there my troubles began!" I put it down and didn't come back for a few days.

[joyeuse13]

It's the photograph of Richieu inside the cover that undoes me.

[rlg]

The G-String Murders is a decent mystery. It's dated now (as would most mysteries written in the era), but it's decent.

No cheerful xenophobia, not overly memorable (Agatha Christie had nothing to worry about), but the mystery wasn't given away in the first three chapters.