I have used Amazon in the past for books and CD's but I have usually bought from other companies that use their platform. Only occasionally have I bought from Amazon direct. So if Amazon is boycotted per se then you could hurting other companies that use the marketplace side of the company. The motto is to check from whom you are buying from when ( Read more... )

I suppose blogging for me is like writing some kind of a diary, a type of autobiography of the mundane, since in Andy Warhols’ dictum, everyone can be famous for fifteen minutes. The one thing it does detract from is the available time devoted to reading ( Read more... )

I don't know why Spot, my cousin, banged on the door last evening whilst he took his own keys with him. This happens evry time he has been out and up the pub whilst i have been indoors. I left the Dover Castle early to catch a TV programme at nine and used the spare back door key to get in , and decide to go to bed quite early, as i was tired, and ( Read more... )

Book Five of my 50 Book Challenge was completed this morning.

Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle tells the story of Joan Foster, an author who finds success rather unintentionally, by way of a book named Lady Oracle: she has been writing pulp Gothic romances under an assumed name, but hides this fact from everyone she knows.
The underlying theme of this ( Read more... )

Another book finished an hour ago from the fifty book challenge and,strangely, the second one by David Mitchell, although he wrote this before Cloud Atlas. There is a very Asian feel to this novel.

For example, what do a Japanese cultist; a teenager working in a Japanese jazz music shop; a financier in Hong Kong; the owner of a Chinese tea shop; a ( Read more... )

I started reading this in tandem with the Cloud Atlas novel, and have just finished reading it this morning ( Read more... )

While experimental in his genre leaping poatmodern, interlocking Möbius strip narrative, Mitchell never loses focus of the important elements of a novel- it has something to say and it says it well. k. Authors who attempt tour de forces and experimentation can have a tendency to leave the reader scratching his head wondering what the hell is going ( Read more... )

Another gloriously sunny day. The sun less savage than yesterday, thankfully, and to have such clemency weather wise for a bank holiday is not be sneered at.

I have now completed “The Blind Assassin” by Margaret Attwood and will give this book away in the next few days.

The novel is made up of three strands. There are the memoirs of Iris Chase, ( Read more... )

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