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Have a great Friday! ******

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life. -- W. Somerset Maugham -- Hav...

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the cour...

When the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laure...

Have a great Monday! ******

Well, today's the big day for NFL football fans. SUPER bowl of Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Breakfast of Champion Bloggers! I like to spr...

In any case, I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and ex...

Why am I posting a picture of this feline domesticus? This photo of the SECOND best-looking cat in the world? Well, a reader of this blog f...

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God...

Lately it seems that I am so tired out from my work day that I can't even release a good blog. Hmmm.... maybe I should see a doctor abo...

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever ...

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy s...

Sunday is my favorite day of the week. And I'm not sure why. It just is. It has been for a long while now, and so much so, that I have ...

I've been waiting a decade. Sade is someone... well, I just cannot tell you how much I love her music. My inauguration was her 5th albu...

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All day long I had the radio blaring in the warehouse where I work. I had it on CBC [talk-radio] as usual. At a certain point in the day I h...

The books that mean the most to me are ones that make me feel that I'm seeing the world for the first time, almost. But there's a pa...

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. -- Hermann Hesse -- Have ...

This is so cute I seriously can't stand it!

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused. -- Gilda Radner -- Have a great Tue...

The dust jacket of my book is upside down. What I mean is, I cannot put it right side up. See, it's a Library Book and the dust cover is...

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change y...

I just finished a terrific book tonight. Wow. I'm not kidding, it was truly grand! Absolutely wonderful! St. Urbain's Horseman , by ...

I do not have any sort of scientific defense for what I am about to declare. In fact -- I'm sure I could find some corroborating eviden...

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. -- Kazuo Ishiguro -- Have a great Friday!

Have a great Thursday! *******

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over...

As I was saying this morning, I started to read Mordecai Richler's [1966] novel St. Urbain's Horseman. 70 pages in, I am really enjo...

I am just embarking on what I know will be a remarkable book. St. Urbain's Horseman , by Mordecai Richler. One of my favorite quotes of ...

We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have...

If the first few weeks of 2010 are any indicator, this is going to be a good year for reading! I've already read several really terrifi...

I like my sex the way I play basketball: one on one and with as little dribbling as possible. -- Leslie Nielsen -- Have a great Friday!

You know friends, there are times when I just stay silent, and there are other times when I have to declare someone Idiot of the Year! This...

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason, no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ...

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as between an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was t...

A noted psychiatrist was a guest speaker at an academic function where Nancy Pelosi happened to appear. Ms Pelosi took the opportunity to sc...

It has come to my attention that what I think of as sarcasm [maybe that's even the wrong word]... maybe what I really mean is "joki...

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Well, I am not even going to wait until I am done this book to tell you all that you should frigging GET IT and READ IT. I shall finish it t...

As some of the more astute among you may already know , I used to be a drummer in a rock band. We called ourselves Black Dog . Because I had...

It was only many years after, when my grandfather had departed from this world and I was a grown man, I finally came to realize that my gran...

Well, by now we've all heard about the guy wearing his lovely explosive diaper there on Christmas Day. But this foiled terrorist attack ...

Have a great Thursday! ********

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It wo...

Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. -- Harry Eme...

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their masters by copying the answer out of a book w...

How's the New Year going, folks? Mine is excellent. Been reading an absolutely terrific book called The Falls , by Joyce Carol Oates. I ...

I read 48 books last year. on the image of me carrying them, for a more detailed account. A few times I have abandoned a book halfway throu...