Bookpuddle

  A few years ago now, my immediate family had a sibling-reunion in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. . I'll never forget walking p...

Mayor: "Drebin, I don't want anymore trouble like you had last year on the South Side. Understand? That's my policy." Fran...

I gestured at my litre of fizzy red wine. “Want a drop of this?” I asked him. "No thanks. I try not to drink at lunchtime.” "So do...

  But you're wrong, so wrong to be down on love You know you're not the only one See I've been down on love In matters of the...

I wanted to let a couple of poems illustrate the way in which a subjective (personally accepted) concept of God can be so easily universaliz...

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; an...

There are certain poems that just stay with you. Once you have read them, they never leave. Though they may fade somewhat with time and negl...

I went to a restaurant with a sign that said they served breakfast at any time. So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. -- Steven ...

  There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely -- or dragging out some false, sh...

I’m a city boy. In the big cities, they’ve set it up so you can go to a park and be in a miniature countryside; but in the countryside they ...

I've been reading this great novel In The Kitchen by British writer, Monica Ali. That is to say, it's entitled In The Kitchen, I ...

  I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you ...

  I took many pictures of my vacation in British Columbia two weeks ago, but this is one of my favorites. We were just rou...

  Arcturus: Two Ages On a night, follow the arm of The Big Dipper, left and down. The next brightest thing you observe has two ages,...

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  Letterman's Top Ten List : John Gotti's Top 10 Tax Tips 10. You can deduct the entire piano even if you bought it just for the...

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal – Have...

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand...

I've spent the weekend with a terrific book. And terrific is such a weak adjective, for such a book as Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken...

Well, I just finished my first full week of being back to work after a terrific holiday on Vancouver Island. My sister snappe...