What BOOK are you reading right now?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17235026-the-girl-with-all-the-gifts

American Gods -- Neil Gaiman

I like the first 1/4 of the book at least.

Yet, of all the changes brought by the first world war, Adam Tooze argues in this bold and ambitious book, by far the most important was the arrival of the United States in a position of unparalleled economic, political and moral ascendancy. It wasn't simply that in 1916 America became the world's largest economy, she was also the war's banker. Wall Street paid for the battle of the Somme, and the US government bankrolled Passchendaele.

If the Lord makes you cry, He will make you laugh again.

so good to be re-reading these stories again

Looking at Chandler’s work in retrospect, it seems fair to say that he wasn’t really a “mystery writer”—or not first and foremost. Plots didn’t interest him much. They were just pegs on which to hang characters and language. His plots were not particularly original but that never bothered him. “Very likely Agatha Christie and Rex Stout write better mysteries. But their words don’t get up and walk. Mine do.”

The technical basis of the Black Mask type of story on the other hand was that the scene outranked the plot, in the sense that a good plot was one which made good scenes. The ideal mystery was one you would read if the end was missing.