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What a book can do for you

May 8, 2014May 8, 2014

Not so often do I find a book I really love. Almost never do I find a book that turns me into a better person, somehow. This is the author of one of them, Ruth Ozeki — The book is A Tale for the Time Being, and was shortlisted for last year’s Man Booker Prize. … Continue reading What a book can do for you

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

Kurt Vonnegut

via 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will · The A.V. Club.

Tips from Kurt Vonnegut (swiss-miss.com)

December 3, 2013

The Stranger’s Child

August 3, 2013

Alan Hollinghurst’s “The Stranger’s Child” Review : The New Yorker. That which I am reading now. Yes, I have a definite Booker bent to my reading tastes. No, this book didn’t win the Booker, but another of the author’s books did — The Line of Beauty. And I wouldn’t have found this here book — The Stranger’s … Continue reading The Stranger’s Child

Music. Again, and ever more again.

February 19, 20132 Comments

Of course, listening to the music in the previous post has started me going through an orgy of music listening, currently switching through various songs on Tommy. I sit here with eyes half glazed over with one wish moving through my mind: I wish I was a DJ. Then and only then do I remember: … Continue reading Music. Again, and ever more again.

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