Bookpuddle

It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but ...

Anyone who tells you that it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all has never done both. -- Jon Richardson, It’...

Dave Letterman's Top Ten Signs You'd Make A Bad Pope 10. Typically spend Sundays disabled by a hangover. 9. Religion isn’t real...

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many ...

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in n...

I am a huge fan of the writings and thoughts of Richard Dawkins. And so I attacked his eagerly anticipated memoir [which was a birthday gi...

Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual. -- John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany -- Have ...

I just got home from my nightly after-work stint at the Chapters bookstore… well, actually, the Starbucks within it. I spend about 75% of ...

Have a great Thursday! *****

"The lower a man is in an intellectual respect, the less puzzling and mysterious existence itself is to him." -- Arthur Schopen...

Either I just know how to pick good books to read, or I am a very lenient and un-critical reviewer. I've been accused of the latter th...

There will be mistakes, and maybe the point is not to forget the rest of yourself if one little part might go bad. -- Chuck Palahniuk, F...

There is nothing louder than an American hotel; and, mind you, this was supposed to be a quiet, cozy, old-fashioned, homey place - ‘graci...

As I survey the course of my life I find that I've seemed to somehow steer clear of some of the major designations or roles that denot...

The last time I went to Mexico on vacation I took a real dud of a book along with me. Stendhal's The Red and the Black . Definitely no...

The ultimate truth about money: even though it doesn’t care about me or you, to make money requires us to care deeply about it. -- Kevin ...

I'm writing this after work while sitting at the Starbucks in a bookstore. While browsing around in the books I ran across one by Kevi...

Have a great Tuesday! *****

…and oh, what a rude awakening it is! My first day back to the ol' millstone, and I worked almost a twelve-hour day! I miss Mexico! I ...

INTERVIEWER : Which nineteenth-century writers do you admire? T.C. BOYLE:  Charles Dickens, for one. A quintessential artist, one who ...