I felt like a character in a book today, we’d run out of electricity. Every time I turned around to do anything I need electricity and there wasn’t enough to even boil the kettle. Gah! All hail the internet! A few days ago we had internet problems. This started on ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
I’m wondering if Amazon has a secret agenda and if it’s trying to take over the world…one book at a time. They’ve opened an Australian Kindle store where you can get all your Kindle goodness (or badness depending on how you view Kindle and Amazon) at an Australian url and ...
Keen eyed readers of this blog might possibly have spotted something different this week, that assumes I have either keen eyed readers or just readers in general. Yes, you guessed it! No posts!! Need some da da dum music here but I haven’t played any kind of music in far ...
Father Brown in The Hammer of God by G K Chesterton WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS HEAVY SPOILERS FOR BOTH THE ORIGINAL SHORT STORY AND THE 2013 TELEVISION EPISODE I very much enjoyed the original short story – a mysterious murder turns out to be committed by the least likely suspect, ...
Why would they think children’s puppets are gay? Especially when these puppets haven’t really grown up. What am I talking about? You probably don’t want to know as it’s one of the silliest things I’ve seen in a long time but this is the article. I could understand if they ...
I’ve been thinking about failure a lot lately, there have been a number of articles all talking about how we tend to tell our kids how wonderful they are, bolstering up their confidence but doing very little about helping them deal with failure. Life is full of failures and it’s ...
While browsing this morning I found this article on 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963 – 2013. It may be a good list, they may even be important books but I don’t know as I haven’t read any of them, there are two I might possibly have read but ...
Today is another of those articles you can choose not to read, there’s going to be very little mention of books or anything to do with books and if you decide to drop off the radar for today I suggest you come back tomorrow to read a few words about ...
It’d be nice if I had something to say today. Instead of finding something to write about I’ve been tidying, I’d like to see my desk so I’ve been dealing with things. All cords have been tidied and been placed into a box, the pile of books has been put ...
I can’t believe what is happening in the world today. I had something in mind for Mondayitis today until I heard about the bombings in near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. This is horrible news to wake up to and it would be nice if people would see ...
Back in April last year I confessed to not being a Daddy Blogger and also not feeling like I was a Mummy Blogger, you can read that little snippet here. I have two problems with the label: Problem one This has been dealt with by so many other people so ...
Always an interesting thing to do as there are so many ways this could go wrong. Let me count the ways…actually let me not count as that sounds very much like maths, maths and I are not good friends. As parents we speak for our children and try to back ...
Publishers and booksellers have been trying everything they can to make sales since the year dot. They’ve had author signings, book clubs, recommendations and so many more. Back in 1983 Angus & Robertson published a mystery book without the solution, this was placed in a sealed envelope at the U.S. ...
It is one of those days and will continue being one of those days until the temperature drops and/or I get a new computer…probably both as my computer is very flaky at present and it’s not entirely due to the weather. I’ve put a thermometer near the fan outlet and ...
It looks as if Barnes&Noble are struggling somewhat. This article by dbw talks about it and debunks some of this article’s suggestions, the same guy had the same ideas to save Borders you can follow the links and read his manifesto just like I did or see the link later ...