Bookpuddle

Phantasm I walked across a field last night And though you were not there… The scented, memory-laden Mists of you were in the air. And these...

Romeo: Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more To blazon it, then sweeten with t...

Listen up, people! Fast-food lovers everywhere… REJOICE ! ← Starbucks is selling wicked good-looking breakfast sandwiches! I knew this d...

Have a great Thursday! ************

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yours...

What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know. The earth does not belong to man. Man belongs to the earth. All thin...

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words ar...

Those of you familiar with my blog will know that one of my favorite authors, perhaps my #1 favorite living author, is Jose Saramago. Recent...

Upon Graduating I hope for you a considered life In increasing measure. I hope for you joy in vocation. Calling . Love. I hope for...

I am sitting at Starbucks and just randomly thinking, as I sometimes do. I am still slogging through a couple of non-fiction books, and jus...

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on fu...

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Honesty is the key. One can praise a book because one likes it, but one can not dispraise it because one dislikes it -- still less if, merel...

Well, today was back to reality. I had six days off, and that is a rare thing for me… workaholic that I am! My next vacation is in August . ...

A sign of the times! Have a great, fueled-up, Tuesday! **********

The Extra Ones We are told that he chose five smooth stones. Young, and ruddy faced, in 1 Samuel 17:40. I would have imagin...

Think of the following as an assessment of my artistic sanity! Or lack, thereof! Recently, I bought a big huge painting, thing. For my main...

It’s not funny! This actually happened to me, yesterday! Have a great Friday! ********

Let’s face it. Few things in [Canadian] life possess the sheer, unmitigated potential of being more innately boring than CBC Radio, anywhere...

There is a place for mind and mind knowledge. It is in the practical realm of day-to-day living. However, when it takes over all aspects of ...