Bookpuddle

Dear Friends: For the next little while I'm going to be unable to do any blogging at all. I do look forward to getting back in th...

Have a great Friday! *****

Genius in the sperm whale?  Has the sperm whale ever written a book. spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothin...

Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what the...

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him. -- Colm Toibin, Th...

Ahhh, finishing a beer, and beginning a new book. Even though the lovely weekend is pretty much over, there is still much to be thankful ...

People who know me know that I struggle with concentration.  I 'm extremely prone to distraction. This is why I 'm a slow reade...

A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men...

I like a very wide variety of music.  From AC/DC to Dvorak.  It all depends on my mood, and I have many moods. A wide variety of moods....

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. -- Gustav Mahler -- Have a great Thur...

-- Letterman's Top 10 -- Top 10 Signs You're A Lame Spy   10. You fear heights, loud noises, air travel, and enclosed spaces. 9...

Here is a pic of the last two books I read. Coraline is terrific, I highly recommend it. I just finished the John Banville one tonight an...

Gotta hand it to this guy, he may not be exactly "romantic" but he's definitely creative! I think I'm going to use his met...

Granny Godley was dying of a damaged heart and grimly turned over each new day like a playing card from a steadily diminishing deck, antic...

Tonight I did my regular stint at Starbucks in the Chapters bookstore after work. Finished reading Coraline [loved it!] and started read...

 Have a great Friday! *****

Well, just a brief word here because I've had a very tiring day at work. But I thought I'd drop by to say I finally finished read...

Don't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they'r...

PRESIDENT Obama. Pointing somewhere, in and around, Utah maybe? Thank you, America, for restoring my Canadian faith in, I don't kno...

Some of you may recall that I have somewhat chronicled a bit of the details surrounding my O verall H orticultural I gnorance, a while bac...