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Jim Puskas
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in Thamesville ON, Canada
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Frederick Forsyth, Nevil Shute, Thornton Wilder, Thodore Goodridge Rob
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January 2012
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Until This Soul Departs
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Composing tanka
In a recent blog posting, I mused about publishing a collection of my short stories, along with the notion of inserting a tanka at the beginning of each story as an epigraph to set the tone for the story.
Like its more familiar cousin Haiku, Tanka is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. It differs in terms of length, structure, and content. Haiku is a three-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable patter Read more of this blog post »
Like its more familiar cousin Haiku, Tanka is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. It differs in terms of length, structure, and content. Haiku is a three-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable patter Read more of this blog post »
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| This is both a historical document and a collection of deeply personal stories, as told by the children of holocaust survivors. This book is presented in a highly professional format, indexed and annotated, while still retaining the authenticity, the ...more | |
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| Here is poetry that strikes me as summertime reading: supremely romantic, a remnant of the late 19th century. Languid and lyrical, it urges to be set to music, sung to the accompaniment of a lute — or perhaps an Irish harp. Some pieces seem conversat ...more | |
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| I’ve thought highly of Elizabeth Hay’s work ever since reading Late Nights on Air and His Whole Life. later, I willingly suffered through Snow Road Station. But when I first started this novel, I had begun to have misgivings: 12 characters, two famil ...more | |
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How to rate this book? On the basis of the writing quality alone, it should rate five stars. Just read the first page and you will be swept away by Hurston's magnificent prose: "The sun was gone but he had left his footprints in the sky. It was the ti ...more |
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So sorry to learn that you've hit on what may be a very rare dud by Rumer Godden. It is an oddity and of course, Godden portrays the India that she kn
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"This was an odd little book. The basic story is interesting. I liked the descriptions of the hotel on the sea and found Auntie Sanni, the woman who owns the hotel and runs it, an interesting character. In fact, I thought initially this story was goin"
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"Hardy at his best. First tier in storytelling, character development, and use of language and description. It is like being served a feast to listen to Hardy entone over the features of the heath.
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“You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.'
And how long is that going to take?'
I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.'
That could be a long time.'
I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer.”
― Jayber Crow
And how long is that going to take?'
I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.'
That could be a long time.'
I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer.”
― Jayber Crow
“The bird and the fish may fall in love but where will they build their nest?”
― The Time of Our Singing
― The Time of Our Singing
“But I’m going to need you to love me on the bus, dude. And first thing in the morning. Also, when I’m drunk and refuse to shut up about getting McNuggets from the drive-thru. When I fall asleep in the middle of that movie you paid extra to see in IMAX. When I wear the flowered robe I got at Walmart and the sweatpants I made into sweatshorts to bed. When I am blasting “More and More” by Blood Sweat & Tears at seven on a Sunday morning while cleaning the kitchen and fucking up your mom’s frittata recipe. When I bring a half dozen gross, mangled kittens home to foster for a few nights and they shit everywhere and pee on your side of the bed. When I go “grocery shopping” and come back with only a bag of Fritos and five pounds of pork tenderloin. When I’m sick and stumbling around the crib with half a roll of toilet paper shoved in each nostril. When I beg you fourteen times to read something I’ve written, then get mad when you tell me what you don’t like about it and I call you an uneducated idiot piece of shit. Lovebird city.”
― We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
― We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
In 1984, Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us".”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
In 1984, Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us".”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Wanderers eastward, wanderers west,
Know you why you cannot rest?
'Tis that every mother's son
Travails with a skeleton.
Lie down in the bed of dust;
Bear the fruit that bear you must;
Bring the eternal seed to light,
And morn is all the same as night.”
― A Shropshire Lad
Know you why you cannot rest?
'Tis that every mother's son
Travails with a skeleton.
Lie down in the bed of dust;
Bear the fruit that bear you must;
Bring the eternal seed to light,
And morn is all the same as night.”
― A Shropshire Lad
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I would be interested to see your comments on The Shadow of the Wind by Zafon. Also: A tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki if you decide to read it.
I heartily agree with your message to writers and editors to keep it to less than 400 pages, omit irrelevant characters and don't ramble. Surely part of an editor's job is to impose some discipline upon the writing process (e.g. ref. my reviews of The Philosopher's Pupil and Minister Without Portfolio). My message to a writer is: "I'm your customer. Making my reading experience annoying is disrespectful and bad for your business"
Thanks for your friend request! And glad you found my review of A Tale for the Time Being interesting. It was an intense read for me--some things very good but other aspects bothersome. Look forward to book chats with you.