I’m starting to feel a little disillusioned. Maybe they aren’t so addictive (for me) after all. Ok, so the very first one I did was the one in last Saturday’s paper. I guess they are like crossword puzzles, going from easy to hard as the week progresses. So it was probably a mistake to start on [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Flashy!
So, Flashman was a great read. It’s the fictional memoir of Harry Paget Flashman, whose first claim to fame was as the school bully in Tom Brown’s Schooldays (which I haven’t read, but believe me, it’s high on the TBR stack now!). In this first episode he is expelled from school, has a fling with [...]
Movie review, and a bone to pick
Steve and I watch a lot of movies, actually, but I hardly ever write about them. Probably that’s because I’m so tired by the end of the day that I can barely remember what I watched, even assuming I was able to stick it out to the end. As well as the fact that highbrow [...]
Robertson Davies & John Irving, revisited
I’ve been continuing to obsess over Davies and Irving and the whole issue of homage and plagiarism and so forth. Finally I did what I should have done at the very beginning, which was, duh, some research. And oh, the irony. Guess what I discovered?
Reading Meme
Found this one at Kate’s Book Blog. What are you reading right now? Flashman, by George MacDonald Fraser. And lovin’ it. Do you have any idea what you’ll read when you’re done with that? Probably some more Wendell Berry. What magazines do you have in your bathroom right now? Upstairs: a big stack of back issues of National Geographic and Family [...]
Self-publishing a children’s book
About a year ago, my friend Leland asked me if he could borrow my scanner. He had written a children’s story, he explained, and his then-11yo son Mekiah had illustrated it. He wanted to scan the pictures so that he could get the book printed. A bit more discussion, and the next thing I knew, [...]
Jayber Crow
Wendell Berry’s The Life Story of Jayber Crow, Barber, of the Port William Membership, as Written by Himself is a portrait of a community and a bygone era. I read it in about three days and I loved it to pieces. Already I am looking forward to rereading it. The novel takes place in the [...]