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In honor of Halloween I am reading a scary book, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. So far there have been no witches in the b...

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were in...

I listen to talk-radio more than I listen to music radio. The main reason is because I hate repetition. I hate when the latest hits get play...

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A spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe -- a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest...

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now -- only that place where the books are kept. -- John Steinbeck...

If you've been paying attention AT ALL to my eating habits as revealed here on Bookpuddle, you will know what a change of gears this is...

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Flipping The Pages Concentration level. Lack of distraction. Both of these factor into the final equation. Mb + Hb = Siadf. And "b...

Is it the weekend yet? You know, lately, what with the change of seasons and all and that thing they do with the clocks, I am waking up when...

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QUESTIONS TO EINSTEIN: To what extent are you influenced by Christianity? "As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and the ...

The title of this blog-posting may be a bit confusing. At first glance it might seem to imply that I think the word "genre" is a s...

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Speaking of John Irving, today is the day his new book hits the racks! Last Night In Twisted River . It's officially available in the st...

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and ...

Just taking a break here at Starbucks [coming to you LIVE, folks!] as I am absorbing my third pint of coffee... admittedly I'm a bit hyp...

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth. -- Albert Einstein -- Have a great Monday!

I am convinced that we, in our day and age, are involved with too many things. By "too many things" I am referring to things we wo...

The Wheelbarrow Thing We had a thing where one of us would say You need a ride in the wheelbarrow right now. It meant we had violated some s...