Woe to you when All Men Praise you: The Upside of DisapprovalWoe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets. Whoa! Unintentional homonymic pun!This is one of Jesus's harder saying because we humans … [Continue reading]
The Good Books Blog is #23 in Wikio’s Top UK Literature Blogs, November 2010–down from #16 alas
The Good Books Blog is #23 in Wikio's Top UK Literature Blogs, November 2010--down from #16 alasBut given the paucity of my recent posts, I can't complain!!Thank you to The Age of Uncertainity1Crooked Timber2Charlie's … [Continue reading]
Blogs as demanding as toddlers, and monetized blogging
A Blog's Like a Baby and Monetized bloggingScary words--"It’s not not fun,” says the editor-in-chief of Jezebel, which today attracts almost ten million hits a month. “But it’s more like the blog is a baby, and it has to be tended to at all times. … [Continue reading]
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThis novel is a truly astonishing act of ventriloquism. Ishiguro, doomed to be a perpetual outsider in England, by virtue of race, has used the outsider's gifts of ventriloquism and distance to … [Continue reading]
"I care very little if I am judged; indeed, I do not even judge myself"
"I care very little if I am judged; indeed, I do not even judge myself" I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. 4 My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord … [Continue reading]
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis Bernieres
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis BernieresWe listened to the opening chapters of Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis Bernieres yesterday. What a captivating opening, and how well it drags you into the story. I was enchanted by the exotic … [Continue reading]
The Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer
The Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer I first saw this in the Oxford Playhouse 26 years ago--so long ago that in my memory it was Cortez and Montezuma in Mexico, not Pizzaro and Atahualpa in Peru. Fortunately, my family's listening … [Continue reading]
Alice Munro–Consummate Short Story Writer
Alice MunroMy favourite short story writer, hands down, is Alice Munro. I love her jewelly miniaturist's art, her contorted sentences, the elegaic tone which pervades her work, her sharp eye, her sense of hard-won wisdom, the sadness and beauty which … [Continue reading]
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