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top 5 books of 2013
For various reasons, i didn't read as much as I have in previous years, this year. What follows is my top 5 books that I've read. They weren't necessarily published this year ( Read more... ) -
Top 10 Reads of 2012
Note, whilst I've read all these books this year, they weren't all necessarily published this year ( Read more... ) -
The Participation Badge
I think the first time I played the lottery I was around 26. At that age, you don’t think about lotteries that much. Life was fun, you had what you wanted and retirement was not something you gave much thought to.
I always said, then, that the only time I’ll buy a lottery ticket is when I walk into the convenience store and bells go off in my head.
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I Will Always Love You (not a love story)
I know you haven’t heard enough about Whitney Houston over the last little while. So permit me to add my bit to it, even though I have talked about this before--but if I can barely remember, well, neither, I’m sure, can you.
To begin: A caveat. I’m sure Whitney was a great singer. I know she was. She was beautiful too. I have, had, nothing against ( Read more... ) -
The Great Deciever...or how I woke up and learned to hate percentages
I awoke at around 5 a.m yesterday morning thinking about percentiles and couldn’t go back to sleep. Since I went to bed after midnight, I really only got around 66 per cent of a good night’s sleep.
Percentages. The great deceiver. The great de-equalizer. Or is that unequalizer?
In North America, more so than Europe, although that might be changing, ( Read more... ) -
Read Any Good Books Lately?
So at this time last year I optimistically wrote that my new year’s resolution was to stop buying books.
I am addicted to buying books I wrote then, . I need to stop. As it is I have no room. Books pile up, one atop the other on every imaginable space in my living quarters. I am like an unorganized library. I need to learn the Dewey System.
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King 77-87
Right. So where was I? Right, Stephen King. As I was saying, I swallowed Stephen King’s work from when I was a teenager, up to my mid 20s. I don’t mind saying so. Even though there is, particularly amongst literary snobs, an almost violent aversion to his works. I put this down to jealously mostly. Those who do, write. Those who can’t, critique.
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This Blog is based on a story by Stephen King
The New York Times recently published the top 10 Stephen King Books based on number of weeks on the Hardcover fiction list ( Read more... ) -
Harry Potter and the Millennial Generation
The Harry Potter saga officially comes to an end with the screening of the final part of the two-part series finale this week.
The final book, Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows, came out four years ago.
It was either that book, or the sixth one, its predecessor that came out the day I was to fly to Israel. I received the book by ( Read more... ) -
Women I Love
My local classic rock radio station today is having a Women We Love day, playing songs from female singers, in honour of Valentine’s Day. And that got me thinking….
The first woman singer I loved was Olivia Newton John, and we never forget our first, do we? Olivia entered into my life when I was around 12, in that curious and experimental pre- ( Read more... )