Posts
- Category: Books (continued)
- Dombey & Son By Charles Dickens-an Early Feminist Novel?
- Extracting the maximum from reading non-fiction books-Smart note taking
- Fantasising About Words
- Free Books
- Georges Simenon’s notebooks circa 1960
- Graham Greene’s ‘The Quiet American’-spare, economic writing and deep cynicism
- Great summer reads
- Gypsy girls, dead bodies and smoking guns
- Henry James and Washington Square-not sure what to think
- How did Russia give us Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and then Putin?
- How to Reduce Stress and Anxiety Every Day
- I departed from my usual type of book reading-big mistake
- I have just finished “The Brothers Karamazov”
- I published this audiobook 12 days ago and have been stunned by the sales
- I went to mass yesterday for the first time in many years
- Interested in classic fiction books? This YouTube channel is a gem
- Is it Graham Greene’s use of similes that creates the cinematic quality in his books?
- It took 26 uploads but was still time well spent
- Jordan Peterson and “The Gulag Archipelago”
- Kindle Short Reads-a great opportunity for would be writers?
- Learning from Sherlock Holmes
- Listening to "The Brothers Karamazov" on audiobook
- My first Charles Bukowski novel, “Ham on Rye”-recommended?
- My holiday project-rerecording my property audiobook for Audible
- My Kindle book sales this month (so far)
- My simple, unceasing daily pleasure
- My Tattooist of Auschwitz Lesson
- On letter writing
- One of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s favourite words?What does it mean?
- Online courses on the Teachable platform-a throwaway remark prompts a change of direction
- Perhaps I can write a novel
- Persisting with “Anna Karenina”, and I will miss it when completed
- Reading “Dubliners” and “Ulysses” like comparing reading English with Greek or Latin
- Reading classic books for a second time
- Reading Classic Books-10 Personal Recommendations
- Reading history books to understand
- Reading Tolstoy-an antidote to the simplicity and brevity required in online writing
- Redoing my audiobook “Buying a House in Ireland: A Step by Step Guide by a Builder/Solicitor”
- Sherwood Anderson and Winesburg, Ohio
- Steinbeck’s ‘lighter’ novels
- Struggling with ‘The Magic Mountain’, looking forward to a page turning story
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene-not for me
- The Best 10 Minutes of My Day
- The Chimp Paradox-a book that should be read again and again
- The genius of John Steinbeck
- The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene-an introduction to philosophy
- The problem with audiobooks
- The stunning beauty in the writing of Thomas Mann
- Things I Will Unhesitatingly Spend Money on Every Day
- Thomas Mann and “The Magic Mountain”
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