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Having just finished Peter Carey’s latest novel, Theft , I have mixed feelings. I liked the book, and simultaneously, found it… difficult. F...

Well, tonight is a big night for Hockey in Ottawa! In just minutes from now, a very crucial Game 3 against the Anaheim Ducks will be under w...

Today, June 1st, marks TEN YEARS of renting this penthouse apartment. Before this I paid rent elsewhere, assuredly yes, but I am just thinki...

The poet Diagoras of Melos was perhaps the most famous atheist of the fifth century. Although he did not write about atheism, anecdotes abou...

I guess I am still in mourning over last night's loss by the Senators! GO SENS GO! Have a great Thursday!

Well, tonight is a very important night for the Ottawa Senators. In the last game, Anaheim had their number, and the Sens are now down a gam...

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it...

Just stopping by, briefly, to say that I was heartened [← is that even a word?] today to notice something in the Globe and Mail “Book” sect...

Your own winning literary style must begin with interesting ideas in your head. Find a subject you care about and which in your heart feel o...

GO SENS GO! Well, I have raced home from work, [even skipping my ritualistic Starbucks time] to go out and watch the senators play Game One ...

Either then or later we kissed, but when it happened it was anticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad. In many ways, it was a good ...

I have just started the reading of Theft , a novel by Peter Carey. It begins thus: I don’t know if my story is grand enough to be a trag...

I write quickly -- I can finish a poem in forty-five minutes, sometimes less. Then you go back to make it dance a little better. Eighty perc...

This is my 1,000th posting on Bookpuddle! A thousand blogs! Holy moly! You may have noticed lately that the onetime superb quality of my ove...

Have a great Thursday!

I’m convinced that if there is such a thing as reincarnation and I run into the person who was Jane Austen in a past life, I will recognize ...

It is easy to recognise the moment when we have entered the orbit of a snob. Early on in an encounter, the subject of what we "do...

This blog will have nothing to do with books at all. It is moreso about how, as a child, I was filled with demons! ← And how my dad, [sh...

"The target is faith, really, the willingness of people to believe something without reason or without evidence. And not just anything,...

I’m having a moral dilemma. I am not willing to buy all of the books I want to read. And sometimes these are too new to borrow from the Libr...