Member: CitizenNoir

I have a lot of crime stuff too. I had the book [Steal This Book] but I borrowed it.

posted by frdiamond at 7:17 am (EST) on Oct 11, 2008

Thanks for the add, Mark. Interesting noir library.
Ed

posted by edlynskey at 7:18 pm (EST) on Sep 30, 2008

Hey Mark, is that you? I believe it is!

It's really good to hear from you. Pretty funny, because I was like "who's this CitizenNoir guy, why is he 'friending' me, and why didn't I think of a cool name like that?" Then I read your profile (but didn't notice your real name) and looked at your library where I saw various UglyTown authors. I thought to myself, "this guy must have lived in Los Angeles in just the last few years." Then I saw Charlie Huston and Philip Kerr and all the Jim Thompsons, and slowly a small candle of suspicion ignited above my head. I thought "Los Angeles, Washington D.C....Hmm, Washington D.C.," went back to your profile, spotted your name and the candle ignited into a full-fledged blowtorch of happy recognition.

How are A....a and the kids (it is kids, plural, by now, right? I'm pretty sure Jack said #2 was born, but my time sense of when you moved and what stage the pregnancy was in is completely whacked out. I want to say it's been almost a year since you've moved, so the pregnancy must be long over)? I'm not going to butcher the spelling of A....a's name on here, though I think it's spelled pretty close to the way it sounds; but, for all I know, I may have screwed up already with just the two letters:) I've also got a semi-mild case of paranoia about revealing to much personal information on here, because some portion of it shows up on the general internet (not sure about these comments, but the various discussion threads definitely do) so I don't want to just throw her name out there to the world without checking with you/her first. That's also why I'm just going by "bookstothesky" and only generally mentioning that I live near L.A., though I've been considering using my first name (still undecided as of this moment, though).

How's life treating you in the good ol' District of Columbia, and just what the heck are you doing with yourself out there anyway? Jack told me what you're up to, but I'm sorry to say whatever he told me has evaporated from my memory.

Have your read anything good lately? I just finished off a first novel called "The Shadow Catchers" by Thomas Lakeman and thought it was really well done. I'm now reading "The Redbreast" by Jo Nesbo, which just came out in hardcover over here. It's translated from "the Norwegian" and the book has won various awards, including being voted "the best crime novel ever" by some Norwegian book club; so far, about 180 pages in, I can't really disagree, though since I've never read any other crime novels set in Norway, I don't have anything to compare it to.

I'm gonna sign off now before this turns into a novel of my own. Say Hi to A....a for me.

posted by bookstothesky at 10:43 am (EST) on Nov 26, 2007

OK, who's the icon?!

posted by keylawk at 7:40 pm (EST) on Jul 7, 2007