52 Quotes

'The level of the salt in your shaker decreases  at the same excruciating rate, day after day.'   (Zoë Heller, 2003, p. 99) R...

The closer someone is to you, the more you will feel disappointed by their inconsiderate behaviour. Your expectations are different of th...

Orwell, in 1945, speaks about the language of politics at a time when the second of two world wars is coming to an end. He contends tha...

A Tiny Feast by Chris Adrian (2009) is a modern fairytale. My Goodreads review gives it five stars and explains: ' The juxtapositio...

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Kay Joy Fowler (2013) teaches us much about kinship. Sometimes it means beginning in the midd...

Author Harper Lee passed away on the 19th of this month and having read and been inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird, I turned to her othe...

The Big Short told the story of the 2007/8 housing market collapse and banking irregularities and the subsequent economic collapse in an e...

'Room' by Emma Donoghhue has had a great movie interpretation of the book, capturing the atmosphere, characters and situation ...

'For my own sake I must forgive you.  One cannot always keep an adder in ones breast to feed on one nor rise up every night to sow ...

 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' written by Gabriel García Márquez tells the story of the reactions of a poor family and...

New Years Eve eve, on our way to our daughter's place by train we passed over the Geffrye Museum . I was reminded of when we visited...

We don't always get it right first time and can more often than not spend a lot of time at the trial and error stage. But the mor...

The Dalai Lama (2012) in his book 'Beyond Religion' talks of 'ethics for a whole world' and speaks of the following ...

We strive to be better. To develop. To learn. To be 'that better self' as George Elliot would put it. Organised religion doesn'...

Books do not need to be literary masterpieces to be insightful. Neither do they need to be an overall success. They can, like The Secre...

'Our Man in Havana' is a comic look at international espionage and the role and unreliability of informants in state affairs and ...

I watched Back to the Future in 1985 and imagined a future like Marty McFly's. We had remote control TV, the home computer game Pon...

'The Martian' by Andy Weir is a wonderful tale of survival against the odds. Although the odds were better for a botanist's b...

'Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.' Roger Miller (1973) The idea that some people have only have a superficial in...

'Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.'   Marga...