Breath – Tim Winton (A classic Australian novel) - “It’s funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it’s all you ever think about.” ― Tim Winton, Breath Tim Winton is Australia’s most-lauded novelist. He has won Australia’s highest literary merit the Miles Franklin Award an unprecedented…
Virginia Woolf’s Final Letter and To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf’s final letter was found by her husband Leonard on the day she disappeared in 1941. Her body was found some weeks later in the River Ouse, dressed in an overcoat with pockets filled with stones. In August last year,…
Charles Bukowski – The Genius of the Crowd - there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who…
The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins - I was a born again christian (baptist) turned agnostic. Tomorrow I could be a Jedi. I have read a lot of books in recent years about theology and the validity of the new testament. I began to really question my…
Charles Bukowski’s gravestone epitaph ‘Don’t Try’ - Many people have wondered what the gravestone epitaph of the great American counter-culture poet and novelist Charles Bukowski means – ‘Don’t Try.’ I was baffled by this too until I came across this illuminating quote from Bukowski which should substantiate…
Full Index – ‘Reading’ Posts
- Breath – Tim Winton (A classic Australian novel)
- Virginia Woolf’s Final Letter and To the Lighthouse
- Charles Bukowski – The Genius of the Crowd
- The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
- Charles Bukowski’s gravestone epitaph ‘Don’t Try’
- Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski
- Eli Glasman ‘The Boy’s Own Manual to Being a Proper Jew’
- Comedy and the Ages. Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson
- East of Eden – John Steinbeck
