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 Bukowski’s Go All the Way poem. Here is…
Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski - I had been wanting to read a Charles Bukowski novel after seeing the illuminating documentary, ‘Born into this‘. As Goodreads describes Ham on Rye, ‘Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice…
Full Index – ‘Reading’ Posts
- 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
- The Superbowl. And there is talk of Bob Dylan in the Air and it’s not all good, y’all!
- Eli Glasman ‘The Boy’s Own Manual to Being a Proper Jew’
- Comedy and the Ages. Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson
- Currently Reading – East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
