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Ring for Jeeves
“It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn’t.” P.G. Wodehouse in Ring for Jeeves
Tibetian Buddhism from the ground up
“‘Righteous hatred’ is in the same category as ‘righteous cancer’or ‘righteous tuberculosis’. All of them are absurd concepts.” Allan Wallace in Tibetian Buddhism from the Ground up
How to be a Brit
“If a continental youth wants to declare his love to a girl, he kneels down, tells her that she is the sweetest, the most charming and ravishing person in the world, that she has something in her, something peculiar and individual which only a few hundred thousand other women have and that he would be […]
Dave Barry turns 40
“Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has installed within each of us, a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.” – Dave Barry in Dave Barry Turns 40
After a While
After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises. And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open […]
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Books not read
I have not updated this site in the longest time. That’s because the last book I read nearly a month ago – Wuthering Heights, bugged the crap out of me, putting me off reading at all. I feel like … Continue reading
The Tag
Responding to my daughter’s open tag. Quoting her: In this tag, a bunch of Harry Potter spells each carry a question which you have to answer. All of them are book related. I really am not sure who to tag. … Continue reading
Booking the weather
Books by the English cannot NOT have an element of weather in it – rains interwoven into the story, or merely as a passing mention. North American stories invariably feature snow. Russian stories definitely feature the cold. Pretty sure books … Continue reading
Dry talk
I am in that awful phase where I can’t seem to settle on a book to read. I started a Nabokov, and although I think very highly of Nabokov, I couldn’t persist. I started Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, but got distracted. Part of … Continue reading
Writing – Stream of Consciousness
Do people who like to read also like to write ? Is “liking” to write the same as “needing” to write? Is the need to write real or imaginary? Is the need to write, merely a need to be read? Does … Continue reading
Pigs have wings
There are times in my life when chemical-driven emotions throw a party in the brain. Such times are not particularly conducive to reading a Nabokov, brilliant as it may be, and the Bronte sisters had better take their romantic drivel … Continue reading
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Yes, the book was released yesterday in our part of the world. We were among the first in our city to buy it (having preordered it months earlier), and the kid, despite her fever (or perhaps because of), speed read … Continue reading
Jane Eyre
The most important thing to remember when one reads old classics is that it was written in a different era and setting and that there is no point getting worked up because the hero is a brusque man in the … Continue reading
The Transit of Venus
I have a another blog in which I collect interesting quotes from various sources. If I were to post quotes from The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazard, I would have to include the entire novel. Never have I read a book … Continue reading
Read Rant
Here’s a prospective story for you. A middle aged couple, lives in California with their adopted daughter. The wife has psychiatric issues – depression, anxiety perhaps, with low self esteem and proclivity to suicide. The husband is debonair and successful and the … Continue reading
