Looking for something to read other than assigned course materials or your textbooks? Here are a couple of recommendations from Centennial Library staff members:
Josh Michael, Director of Library Public Services, recommends Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler:
“After reading all of Chandler’s novels for the first time this year, I would suggest this one as his best. The scenes are vivid, the characters memorable, and the writing and atmosphere is distinctively Chandler.
“Nothing is ever simple or straightforward in Chandler’s plots and Marlowe’s encounter with Moose Malloy starts the detective down a twisted trail to wrap up another case amid the institutional and individual corruption of LA, though the city is less a character here than in The Long Goodbye or The Little Sister. Everybody is trying to get something they can’t have and in the end, satisfaction proves much more elusive than consequences.”
-Raymond Chandler’s “Farewell, My Lovely” is available at the Centennial Library and also through OhioLINK
Julie Deardorff, Director of Library Collection Services, recommends Sherlock Holmes’s London by Rose Shepherd:
“Sherlock Holmes’s London is a marvelous collection of vintage photographs of London related to the Sherlock Holmes stories combined with a literary travel guide. Although Rose Shepherd divides her chapters by the various areas of London associated with Holmes, she does not merely list the locations that can be found in the stories. Rather, she illustrates how Holmes created a combination of the real London and the London that served his literary needs. Shepherd examines transportation, clothing, and medicine and, of course, the true crime that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle.”
-Rose Shepherd’s “Sherlock Holmes’s London” is available at the Centennial Library and also through SearchOhio
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