Holding out for this sweatshirt I saw once but have never found for sale - homemade?

The full set of academic hand gestures is archived here. #bouncingonimaginaryhandtrampolines

The only thing that worked for me when I had lost the habit was scheduling reading time the way you would exercise or music practice. An hour a day is not hard and can be totally life changing. Try some in the morning - bedtime actually isn’t great because your mind can be too tired.

noooo

“And IHOP, originally, was always in an A-frame building, which is seen as Scandinavian. And they had flags. Scandinavian flags on strings, banners hanging on the front of the restaurants …” Never even occurred to me to wonder why they call it IHOP!

“In America, we only have maple syrup, or fake maple syrup, like Aunt Jemima, who’s another racist mascot. But according to IHOP, in Sweden, where they were pretending they were from, there was, you know, boysenberry syrup. There was lingonberry syrup or something like that.”

Rec’d for the Walter Benjamin memorial library of crime fiction Döblin’s Two Women and a Poisoning, book #962 on Benjamin’s list of reading - right before he read The Magic Mountain for the first time, so c. February 1925.

He kept a (mostly) complete list of all the books he read - someone put it online here prixwb.hypotheses.org/6503

Wow. Impressive! Fortunately for me there are not so many Maigrets before 1940 when WB died - but he did also read a few of the other Simenons - the last on his list is The Strangers in the House.

Two of many by Simenon …

Sven Elvestad, The Case of Robert Robertson (Knopf, 1930)

Maurice Leblanc, The Exploits of Arsène Lupin (Harper, 1907). Pretty rough shape but holding it together.

Sigurd Christiansen, Two Living and One Dead (Liveright, 1932) - looks like more of a crime thriller than a detective novel as such

Emmanuel Bove, The Murder of Suzy Pommier (Little, Brown 1934)

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