The Small One – A Christmas Story (Bing Crosby) - Happy Christmas all! To celebrate this year’s Christmas festivities I would like to present a narration by Bing Crosby of a moving Christmas story called The Small One. I loved listening to this as a child around Christmas time. It…
17/12 – 23/12 incl. Woody Allen, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Lynyrd Skynyrd - Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Woody Allen – A Real Package of What Not To Say Interview excerpt from the Dick Cavett show: Although the title of this video…
Breath (the Introduction) – Tim Winton - Today’s book excerpt is a continuation piece of a review I wrote of Tim Winton’s classic Australian novel ‘Breath’. Tim Winton is my favourite Australian author and Breath is one of my all-time favourite novels. Readings, an independent Australian retailer…
10/12 – 16/12 incl.Quantum Physics, Roman Vineyards and an Alaskan Hunter - Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. The Secret Of Quantum Physics: Einstein’s Nightmare (Jim Al-Khalili) | Science Documentary | Science Real Truth Science Documentaries: I have been binge watching these…
Don Quixote – At the inn which he mistook as a castle - The illustrations which will be shown in this Don Quixote book series come from the hand of Gustave Dore. This french artist was a child prodigy by the age of 5 and the illustrations he made for Don Quixote editions…
Full Index – ‘Reading’ Posts
- The Small One – A Christmas Story (Bing Crosby)
- 17/12 – 23/12 incl. Woody Allen, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Breath (the Introduction) – Tim Winton
- 10/12 – 16/12 incl.Quantum Physics, Roman Vineyards and an Alaskan Hunter
- Don Quixote – At the inn which he mistook as a castle
- 3/12 – 9/12 incl. Deontay Wilder, The Visitor and Order and Entropy
- ‘Walk Star Shares His Successes’ – Hawkesbury Gazette
- 26/11 – 2/12 incl. Movie stars, Little Books, The Moon, The Buddha and Jazz
- Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes (Introduction)
- 19/11 – 25/11 incl. Elton John, Down Under and Wild Geese
- Wet Ghost – Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- 12/11 – 18/11 incl. Meaning of life, Saints, Influencers and Virgins
- Colombia’s 5 Best Secrets – Travel Article
- Deciding not to be a bitch – The Sun Also Rises (Final)
- Camino Real (Royal Road) – The road between Barichara and Guane
- Bobby Fischer – My 60 Memorable Games (First printing 1969)
- The Yellow Book – The Picture of Dorian Gray (final)
- ‘..I overtipped him. That made him happy’. – The Sun Also Rises
- Alby Mangels – Beyond World Safari (Lynn Santer)
- Humanity and Seriousness – Oscar Wilde
- A lady of little faith – The Brothers Karamazov
- Savvy and amusing dialogue in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ (1926)
- ‘If in doubt, cut it out’ – Reflections on Ernest Hemingway’s writing
- Take a walk with James Joyce along the beach
- ‘Taking pleasure of influencing and misleading’- revisiting Oscar Wilde’s only novel.
- ‘Wickedness’ and The Brothers Karamazov
- Near death and contemplation of God from Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
- ‘A morning inspiration’ – James Joyce
- ‘Youth is the One Thing Worth Having’ – The Picture of Dorian Gray
- More on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s writing
- The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde (adapted and directed by Orson Welles)
- ‘The Future of War video’ and Political Grace (The art of disagreeing well)
- 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
