COLLOQUIAL
drawn to life by walt stanchfield in kinokuniya, which discourse read out in a lovely meandering andante.
BEMBO’S ZOO
my first boss used to love vintage paraphernalia. it was never ostentatious ; she drove a puttputting beetle to work, kept a handbag made of measuring tapes and occasionally would show me books like Bembo’s Zoo by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich.
NEVERWHERE
“‘Young man,’ he said, ‘understand this: there are two Londons. There’s London Above – that’s where you lived – and then there’s London Below – the Underside – inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. Now you’re one of them. Good night.’”
however he was portrayed in the tv series and whoever be cast in the upcoming film, the marquis will remain a well-greased johnny depp in my head. okay this is not the most literareah novel but seriously, old men with singular defects and/or homeless things and/or a cinematic adventure and i’m sold ; love this book.
