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Why We Picked It

• For as long as we can remember we have had a fascination
  with Leonardo da Vinci. Last year we attended an exhibit of a large collection of da Vinci’s sketches in Milan without any crowds and it rekindled our interest in learning more about the artist
• Walter Isaacson is a fantastic biographer
• The book itself is beautifully produced(kudos to Simon & Schuster). There are numerous, well...

Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor at The British Museum

On our recent trip to London, after collecting our trove of Joseph Conrad books, we took the opportunity to visit a small, but fantastic exhibit at the British Museum — Charmed Lives in Greece: Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor. The free show, only a few steps inside the entrance on your left, runs until July 15th, 2018. We cannot recommend it highly enough...

What happens when you live in New York, but you buy The Works of Joseph Conrad (Medallion Edition), consisting of 21 beautiful volumes (and weighing over fifty pounds) at an online auction hosted by London-based Forum Auctions? You go to London, walk four miles along the Thames to Forum’s office and carry them right back...

Why We PickedIt

• Fans of DavidSzalay
• His ability to capture the look and feel of present-day London
• Interested to see how this work, comprised of short stories, compared to Szalays other recentwriting

What WeThought

• Excellent, not disappointed
• Brutal realism that is at times tough to stomach, but never question whether the stories are plausible
• Great cadence in hiswriting
• Expands into a larger,...

Why We Picked It

• Fans of David Szalay
• His ability to capture the ‘look and feel’ of present-day London
• Interested to see how this work, comprised of short stories, compared to Szalay’s other recent writing

What We Thought

• Excellent, not disappointed
• Brutal realism that is at times tough to stomach, but never question whether the stories are plausible
• Great cadence in his writing
• Expands into a larger,...