From reading various literary …
From reading various literary tweets this is probably not a good time to offer a sarcastic comment about President Obama . . .
Year: 2009
Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston
It seems I find it physically impossible to go into a library and not check out books. Not a real shocker there I suppose. My latest trip resulted in my picki...
In the Mail: politics edition
–> Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn’t Work by James Delingpole From the Inside Flap If the election of Barack Obama fil...
The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
You know what they say about good intentions and that makes me nervous because I so often have them only to see them fail. As is almost always the case, I have ...
The Fire Gospel by Michel Faber
Sometimes my powers of observation seem riddiculously weak. When I first grabbed it off the library display and started reading it I didn’t even make th...
Where Three Roads Meet by Sally Vickers
There is some irony involved in Sally Vickers’ contribution to the Cannongate Myth series. Her fictional take on Oedipus , Where Three Roads Meet, might...