On letter writing
Letter writing features large in many of the books that I read and enjoy. Books by Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens are set in the 19th cen...
Category: Books
Reading Classic Books-10 Personal Recommendations
For the last five years or thereabouts most of my leisure reading has been reading books that are known as “classics”. How you might define a classic book or wh...
2 Audiobooks I Would Strongly Recommend
I am listening to the audiobook “The Return of the Native” by Thomas Hardy at the moment. It is narrated by Alan Rickman who has a wonderful voice, so rich and ...
Things I Will Unhesitatingly Spend Money on Every Day
Are there things in your life that you would never hesitate to spend on? Leaving aside the basic needs of food, shelter, security there are some things that I s...
Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #5
You probably come from the West or Europe and if that’s the case you have a particular view of the world, a view that you were taught from an early age in schoo...
Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #4
There is a description of working down the coal mines in 19th century northern France in “Germinal” by Emile Zola that painted a claustrophobic, vivid picture i...
Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #3
I have read “Catcher in the Rye” by JD Salinger twice. The first time I had wondered what all the fuss had been about; the second time, I knew. This is a book w...
Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #2
A book that would definitely be on my top 5 list is “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl. Frankl was an Austrian Jew, a psychiatrist, w...
Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #1
The first book I would have on my list of recommended books for my children to read is “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens. This book is essentially about the lega...
Books I Would Recommend to My Children
Scanning through my Kindle to remind myself of the large number of books I have read over the last two years or thereabouts two things struck me: The subject ma...