Bookpuddle

Dear Friends -- Have you ever thought about writing your book for about ten years and then finally succeeded in doing it? A couple of months...

 

For more than sixteen years now I have been a member of a very exclusive, elite book club. It consists of myself and just one other pers...

I just think it was so fitting, so appropriate, so apropos , that tonight, in my city of Ottawa Canada there were fireworks at t...

I was quietly reading on my balcony this weekend and then this happened! *****

Tonight when I got off work I heard on the radio that Yann Martel was in town, speaking about his new book at our Writer's Festival....

Let me begin by saying -- Happy [Belated] New Year to one and all. I have not written a blog for a real long time -- but this does not mea...

"If reasoning were like hauling, I should agree that several reasoners would be worth more than one, just as several horses can haul ...

First of all, my apologies to everyone who may be even slightly concerned, but I have not written a blog-posting in about three years. I b...

Imagine my joy to be walking through a bookstore in Oshawa one day while on vacation and discovering a stack of Jose Saramago books on a t...

What could be conceivably better than eating a massive hamburger and drinking a Guinness whille you are simultaneously scrounging a free B...

Lovely, the way the sky works. The constellations and planets and moons. Enough recurrence to assure us of the probable continuation of t...

I'm sure that some of you who may have been following my blog in the past have concluded that I have died. But I am very much alive! I...

T. Coraghessan Boyle, in repose. I just finished such a great book, The Road To Wellville , by T.C. Boyle. And I loved it so much I ha...

I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at...

Have a great Tuesday! *****

Tonight for supper I ate half a roasted chicken. Yes, with baked potato slathered with half a tub of sour cream…. and watched one of my fa...