My favorite quote from The Road to Los Angeles:

Our eyes met and she smiled, with a smile that said: go ahead and look if you like; there's nothing I can do about it, although I'd like to slap your face.

- John Fante, p. 13

Book I Read: 2012 Edition

• Raymond Chandler - Chandler Before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler's Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912
• Rob Sheffield - Talking to Girls about Duran Duran

Books I Read: 2011 Edition

• Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential
• Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
• Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice

3 books in 2011, better than it's looking for 2013 :-/

Checked this out before I graduated college, several years ago, uhhhh. Finally finished it! Too bad it wasn't that good.

Doing the annual transfer.

Making room for 2012.

Books I Read: 2010 Edition

• Gay Brewer - A Detective in Distress: Philip Marlowe's Domestic Dream
• H. T. Webster - Webster Unabridged
• Michael Chabon - The Final Solution: A Story of Detection
• Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
• Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep

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Some notes to myself:

• Karl Benjamin
• Vija Celmins
• Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps
• Cloud Box
• Untitled (Venice)
• Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas (duh)
• North Wall
• Red Concave Circle (way cooler than Gray Column)
  

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