Bookpuddle

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You...

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. -- C.S. Lewis -- Have a great Tuesday!

This very evening after work I was sitting in a Chapters bookstore, reading this great page-turner of a book, The Angel's Game by Carlo...

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpret...

Her Selfish Grief -- John ch.11 -- Four days his shell lay Bethany-bound when rang the Martha-prompted sound "Come forth" -- she t...

When it comes to books, I tend to move on quickly. Too quickly, perhaps. What I mean is, I will finish a book and almost immediately pick u...

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Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that f...

It was awesome. The whole "Atwood" experience last night. It is very difficult to explain here, but the whole evening was a sort o...

Atwood knows how to show us ourselves, but the mirror she holds up to life does more than reflect — it’s like one of those mirrors made with...

We will never achieve human maturity until we let go and take leave of this parent substitute. Jesus is not to God what Clark Kent was to Su...

I made my blog strong, I made it with my hands, fitted the joists and the beams and the floorboards neat, planed the crooked surfaces, sande...

MAGGIE IS COMING TO TOWN. See this here? I was walking into Chapters today and was accosted by this, posted up on the bulletin board at th...

After Dying Elsewhere Love gone, and I the poorer walk on. Slower now through forest shadows where crunching autumn leaves a cricket song un...

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This guy wakes up one morning to find a gorilla in his tree. He looks in the phone book for a gorilla removal service until he finds one. ...

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"The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness'...

I just really liked this big new poster at the front door of Chapters tonight. READ TO LIVE. I think there is great wisdom in that maxim! Wa...

Please tell me you've got one minute for this? This guy is NOT HUMAN ! Have a great Monday! *******