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Speed dating is like musical chairs for desperate singles. But seeing as it’s been a rough year in my love life, I decided to give it a whirl. The sponsor of my foray was the First Year Social Committee. The locale: Annenberg hall. Look out, men, I thought...
...awash in Louis Vuitton and sexually submissive male models. If you haven’t, here’s a synopsis: her calves and hamstrings are as taut as her leather skirt. Her cheekbones look sharp enough to cut diamonds. She makes my stomach feel like a tilt-a-whirl. In a good...
...there was a time when the tilt-a-whirl feelings just nauseated me, a time I like to call In Living Color...
...respected Georgian academic, Grigory Chkhartishvili. Don't worry, no one in Russia can pronounce it either.) The case of the suicidal swain lands in the lap of a fresh-faced, foppish but surprisingly resourceful young detective named Erast Fandorin, who quickly becomes swept up in a glamorous whirl of moneyed expatriates and gambling, champagne-guzzling aristocrats. You'll understand right away what the Russians see in Akunin: he writes gloriously pre-Soviet prose, sophisticated and suffused in Slavic melancholy and thoroughly worthy of 19th century forebears like Gogol and Chekhov. The Winter Queen is as delicate and elegant...
...Whirl...