Finished Rosebud!

What I'm reading right now is Barry Gifford's The Sinaloa Story.

Nabokovilian moments. (Though they will not be appearing in Nabokovilia, as I already promised myself to keep strictly to fiction pieces.)

Page 314:

A few years later, that very shrewd tourist Eloise arrived in Paris. She and Nanny went to the movies -- thirty-seven times "and have seen Orson Welles 19 times."If only they had met: Orson and Eloise, two spoiled but neglected children. Think of their talk and their meals, the philosophy to go with a bombe surprise! Think of them as brother and sister in Cocteau's Les Enfants terribles. Think -- ladies and gentlemen, you must be seated for this -- but just picture them as Humbert and Lolita, skibbling from one motel to another.

Page 318:

But whereas, shall we say, Kane had been made with the delicacy and the aplomb of a Nabokov, Mr. Arkadin is a dispirited mess, with camp innuendos of greatness, such as Clare Quilty might have tossed off.

Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles.

Page 308:

He [Orson Welles] has no purpose except that of hoping to shrug off pursuit. He has no home, no archive, no library... this is anathema to the biographer. He has to recognize that he is dealing with an alien creature. Seeking a form to accomodate irrational and impossible journeys, he remembers how film cuts, dissolves and castles with time.

Finished Vinland, and found it excellent and strange. Keeping track of who's who is a pain, but the Penguin edition offers a comprehensive list of the characters, along w/ good maps and a substantial introduction, so it's not as much of a pain as it could have been.

What I'm reading right now is Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles.

Right now I'm reading The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America.

Done w/ The Unburied: a bit of a surprise after The Quincunx, seeing how the latter was so committed to delivering a Trollopian/Dickensian experience while the latter seemed like a deconstruction of said experience -- if anything, it's mostly about reading and misreading. But for all that there is much that's excellent, specially the three mostly separate murder mysteries with complicated circumstances involved in each one.

Right now I'm reading Charles Palliser's The Unburied.