Bookpuddle

What could be conceivably better than eating a massive hamburger and drinking a Guinness whille you are simultaneously scrounging a free B...

Lovely, the way the sky works. The constellations and planets and moons. Enough recurrence to assure us of the probable continuation of t...

I'm sure that some of you who may have been following my blog in the past have concluded that I have died. But I am very much alive! I...

T. Coraghessan Boyle, in repose. I just finished such a great book, The Road To Wellville , by T.C. Boyle. And I loved it so much I ha...

I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at...

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Tonight for supper I ate half a roasted chicken. Yes, with baked potato slathered with half a tub of sour cream…. and watched one of my fa...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. -- Robert Louis Steven...

I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we m...

I really liked the last book I read and wanted to recommend it to my readers, even though I may be one of the last people on earth to have...

I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it...But there is nothing in the world that needs us for its...

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Other writers are like a garden diligently planted and watered, but Shakespeare a forest where the oaks and elms toss their branches to th...

I'm quite a fan of "remaindered books". I think it goes hand in hand with the fact that I am also a fan of "not spendin...

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy i...

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than...

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Umm... is it just me? Or does Ellen DeGeneres look a lot like Henry David Thoreau? Have a great Friday! *****

Last year was not a benchmark year for me, reading-wise. Nor, blogging-wise. I'm speaking of quantity , in both respects. In all, I r...