Bookpuddle

We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the...

I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of religion is the cert...

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: no good in a be...

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking. -- José Saramago, The Tale of the Unknown Island -...

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I don’t think it is worth explaining how a character’s nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little ...

As most of you reading this will already know, one of my favourite writers of all time is Jose Saramago. He died in 2010, and was the auth...

"The court was never really interested in my youth," Albert Speer said decades after the Nuremberg trials. "Why should they...

I am just early into the reading of what is already a terribly intriguing and well-written book. Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth , by ...

Although we are taught the Copernican astronomy in our textbooks, it has not yet penetrated to our religion or our morals, and has not eve...

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. -- John F. Ken...

How adorable is my cat, from one to ten? You already know my own opinion on this subject, but I want yours. [NOTE: No fractions or decimal...

Just a few words about the last five books I've read. The Sea , by John Banville. I can never get enough of this guy's writing. Th...

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact...

In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and...

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I've said it before and I'll say it again [apparently] -- but I am a real techno-dinosaur. It's amazing that I even know how t...

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it...

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