Fiction

I've been reading more modern noir the last year and thought I'd go back to an early practitioner.

Thing that I'd forgotten: The book breaks neatly in two halves, almost like two acts of a play. The only comparable thing I've seen recently of the modern authors was John Connolly's _Every Dead Thing_, the first Charlie Parker novel.

Thing I'm noticing this time around that I hadn't before: Chandler uses color description a lot. There are not many pages that don't mention a color somewhere. Don't know what that means, just noticing it.

Listening: More Falco -- _Time to Depart_ by Lindsey Davis. Petro, Falco's closest friend, manages to take down Rome's biggest organized crime kingpin (outside of the palace, anyway), which at first seems like a good thing. After the kingpin is exiled, though, a gang war opens up in the vacuum of power, a not very good thing.

2013: 16 and counting