I need more books ...

It literally stresses me out how many good books are out there that I still haven't read.

Recommended reading - Connecting Detectives: The Influence of 19th Century Sleuth Fiction on the Early Hard-Boileds (2014):

Connecting Detectives: The Influence of 19th Century Sleuth Fiction on the Early Hard-Boileds

By Lewis D. Moore.

Published by McFarland.

Published 2014.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0786477717

ISBN-13: 978-0786477715

Description:

A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of detective series by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Brett Halliday, Mickey Spillane, Thomas B. Dewey, John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Richard S. Prather and William Campbell Gault. Authors from the transitional (1964-1977) and modern periods (1979 to the present) are also discussed to show the ongoing influence of the 19th century detective writers.

Shannon Hale, on reading:

Life is short, so live extra lives.

Read books.

- Shannon Hale.

On this day in music history – Guilty Pleasures, by Renée Fleming and Sebastian Lang-Lessing (2013):

The album Guilty Pleasures,

by Renée Fleming and Sebastian Lang-Lessing,

was released on September 17, 2013.

On this day in movie history - The Town (2010):

The Town

directed by Ben Affleck,

written by Peter Craig, Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard,

based on the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan,

was released in the United States on September 17, 2010.
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley.

Cast:

Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Chris Cooper, Pete Postlethwaite, Slaine, Owen Burke, Titus Welliver, Dennis McLaughlin, Brian Scannell, Isaac Bordoy, Jack Neary, Edward O'Keefe, Victor Garber, Jim Ford.

On this day in movie history - Devil (2010):

Devil

directed by John Erick Dowdle,

written by Brian Nelson,

based on a story by M. Night Shyamalan,

was released in the United States on September 17, 2010.
Music by Fernando Velázquez.

Cast:

Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Jenny O'Hara, Bojana Novakovic, Bokeem Woodbine, Geoffrey Arend, Jacob Vargas, Matt Craven, Joshua Peace, Caroline Dhavernas, Joe Cobden, Zoie Palmer, Vincent Laresca, Rudy Webb, Craig Eldridge, Robert Lee, Genadijs Dolganovs, Joe Pingue, Killian Gray, Michael Rhoades, Kelly Jones, Lee Oliveira, Jonathan Potts, Alice Poon, Stacy Chbosky, Jay Hunter, Mark Behar, Mark Baldesarra, Shannon Garnett, Kimberly Ables Jindra, Gage Munroe, Farzad Sadrian.

On this day in music history – Visions of Love: Mozart Arias, by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras (1996):

The album Visions of Love: Mozart Arias,

by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras,

was released on September 17, 1996.