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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
Resuming Booksplore with Emma
There was a time in my life when classics bored the heck out of me. Pulp fiction was the way to go (James Rollins, anyone?), and anything that did not have a couple of murders did not go well with … Continue reading
Swan Song
A Gervase Fen Mystery by Edmund Crispin, set in the academic setting of Oxford where Fen, the amateur detective is a professor of English Language and Literature. The mystery is fairly ordinary – there is one man that everybody in … Continue reading
Lamb
Lamb by Christopher Moore has been by far the best read of the year so far. Lamb is the alternate gospel of Christ, as recorded by His childhood friend Bif, who was blacked out of the conventional Gospel for reasons … Continue reading
Rabbit Run
It is said that books are your best friends. If “Rabbit, Run” is my best friend, I need no enemies. Don’t get me wrong. Updike was a fantastic writer. His descriptions are vivid and detail oriented, if you excuse the … Continue reading
Blood Music
Blood Music is a SF that starts off fairly simple – a self-absorbed scientist injects himself with genetically engineered cells, which over the course of the book, develop intelligence and collective consciousness. As the story proceeds, it gets not only … Continue reading
A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley must be the longest book of bland narration I have endured in my life. Yet, I pursued the book doggedly, with the one aim that I must read the book before trashing it here. … Continue reading
The Little Black Book of Stories
Some read books for entertainment. Some, for knowledge. Language. For the story. For the emotions elicited. Some like the funnies. Romance. Sleaze. Tear jerkers. I read for entertainment. I like the funnies. I like books that make me think. Not … Continue reading
The Leftovers
I started reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Margeret Atwood some time back but gave up in a few pages because of the sense of utter hopelessness that it conveyed. I chose The Leftovers by Tom Perotta after reading a friend’s review … Continue reading
Without Feathers
Without Feathers is a collection of 18 eclectic works of Woody Allen. The pieces are humourous and the humour is both wacky and intelligent, a combination only Allen can pull. The collection includes two plays – Death and God, … Continue reading
