Category: Ian Fleming

  • Bangkok/What I Read on the plane/What I am reading

    This isn’t a travel blog, but I am in Bangkok right now; it’s just after breakfast time. I had a big bowl of Jok with pork and eggs, and the aunties who run the stall apparently find my lumbering frame and desire to eat Thai food adorable. Bangkok is a unique place; things grow and…

  • “Dr. No”/What I am Reading.

    I’m about 65% of the way through “Dr. No”, which I started on a whim after someone on Reddit mentioned it and… it’s a thing. The first set of Bond books had some of that good-old fashioned 50s racism– outdated terms and descriptions, but I never saw them as ‘racist’, per se. Fleming used the…

  • “From Russia With Love”

    “History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep changing parts” —Ian Fleming I have hazy memories of the Bond films; I remember watching them with my father when they were on “The ABC Movie of the Week”— and while I remember their titles, I’ll be damned if I can tell…