
What I'm reading right now is Thomas Bulfinch's Mythology -- (available online at http://www.bulfinch.org.)
Finished Angels Flight -- pretty good as far as thrillers go: well written and plotted, and peopled with interesting, hard-bitten characters, and plus there's the Nabokovilian passage on page 209:
She finished opening the envelope, unfolded the page on the desk and turned it so Bosch could read it. There was one typed line at the top of the page.Right. There is another tiny reference made on page 271 and another one on page 317, but they might give some of the story away, so I'm not saying anything.dot the i humbert humbert
"Humbert humbert...," Bosch said.
"It's the name of a character from literature -- or what some people consider literature," Entrenkin said. "Lolita, by Nabokov."
"Right."

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