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Roman Blood
Steven Saylor
Progress: 171/401 pages
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Bob Spitz
Progress: 208/557 pages
Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Serge Fauchereau
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Julius Caesar
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The Songs of the Kings
Barry Unsworth
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Alan Lee

Vienna Blood (Liebermann Papers 2)

Vienna Blood (Liebermann Papers 2) - Frank Tallis I really liked some parts of this second novel featuring Max Liebermann, young, dashing doctor of psychiatry in Vienna at the beginning of a new century. Set a few months after book 1, in the winter of 1902, Vienna experiences the spree killing of a very disturbed individual. Again, Herr Doctor Liebermann is asked to consult. I still like the whole Vienna turn of the 1900's. The music scene, much more prominent in this book, the cafes, the food. We get our obligatory Freud cameos and Max's troubled relationship with Miss Lydgate and his doubt about his engagement with Clara are a good counterpoint to the whole Jack the Ripper, Hitler avatar, secret society plot that kinda lose steam and coherence after the third murder. Still, for the atmosphere, the characters it was worth reading.