The Kookaburra Moment Part 1 - Susan loved eating fresh barbecued fish, but the thought of having bones wedged down my throat meant I couldn’t last the meal. But I delighted in watching Susan munching the tailor flesh like a primeval woman at the mouth of…
‘Life, bottom heavy like a kangaroo’ – Anthony Burgess - This is the third excerpt presented here from Anthony Burgess’ masterpiece Earthly Powers. Octogenarian British writer Kenneth Toomey recalls with spectacular clarity (as he almost always does) his visit to Australia in 1930 or thereabouts. Australia is where I was…
A Snorer is Outsnoored – Earthly Powers (Anthony Burgess) - This week on Wednesday’s literature piece we will continue with Anthony Burgess’s panamoramic saga novel of the 20th century Earthly Powers. The novel appeared on the shortlist for the Booker Prize in the year of its publication but lost out…
Earthly Powers (1980)- Anthony Burgess - The local bookstore near where I live has mostly books written in Spanish, but there is a classic English Literature section with thousands of titles to choose from. I miss my Kindle e-reader which decided one day it wouldn’t recharge…
5/4 – 11/4/21 incl. Fructose, The Band & Dostoevsky - Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Peter Attia – The Drive Podcast – #87—Rick Johnson, MD: Fructose—the common link in hypertension, insulin resistance, T2D, & obesity? Audio podcast at Peter…
Full Index – ‘Reading’ Posts
- The Kookaburra Moment Part 1
- ‘Life, bottom heavy like a kangaroo’ – Anthony Burgess
- A Snorer is Outsnoored – Earthly Powers (Anthony Burgess)
- Earthly Powers (1980)- Anthony Burgess
- 5/4 – 11/4/21 incl. Fructose, The Band & Dostoevsky
- God’s place in our future (Brave New World) – Aldous Huxley
- Brave New World (1932) – Aldous Huxley
- 28/04 – 4/05 incl. Stacey E. Bryan, Defeating Evil & The Bob Dylan Project
- 3/03 – 9/03 incl. Peter, Paul, Mary Magdalene, Andy Kaufman, Melbourne and Pornography
- The Story of an Impertinent Curiosity (Part 3 Final) – Don Quixote
- 18/02 – 24/02 incl. Intermittent Fasting, Bret Easton Ellis, The Go-Betweens and Cucumbers
- The Story of an Impertinent Curiosity (Part 2) – Don Quixote
- 11/02 – 17/02 incl. The Bear Attack, Lou Reed & Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
- The Story of an Impertinent Curiosity (Part 1) – Don Quixote
- Day For Night (2016) – Stacey E. Bryan
- ‘The Golden Touch’ – By Ron and Toby Blanchard
- 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
