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Vile Bodies. Evelyn Waugh.

patricia1957 wrote 1 day ago: This is a strange little book, a tale of bright young things in the London of the nineteen twenties. … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Bright Young Things, Vile Bodies, nineteen twenties.

Halloween, Cricket and Props.

beverlyhillsjambo wrote 2 weeks ago: Last Saturday, the 31st of October, Halloween, Samhain, descent into deep winter and I am playing cr … more →

Tags: BeverlyHills, Hollywood, Filmmaking, Halloween, Day of the Dead, Cricket, Soccer, Netherland, Snow White

Christian Fiction3 comments

mjjhoskin wrote 2 weeks ago: Ever since Joseph and Aseneth was a runaway second-century bestseller, Christians have been writing … more →

Tags: Books, Christianity, Classic Christianity, A Wrinkle in Time, all hallow's eve, Brenden, Byzantium, Charles Williams, Constantine

Brideshead Revisited1 comment

Schatzi wrote 3 weeks ago: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Capt … more →

Tags: 24 Hour Read-a-Thon, Classics, Literature

Writers And Their Routines

Taylor Bright wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m woefully behind on this, but it fascinates me too much to ignore. Daily Routines – a … more →

Tags: Books, Graham Greene, Shelby Foote, Kingsley Amis, pauline kael, truman capote, Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway

October 28 in history

homepaddock wrote 3 weeks ago: On October 28: 1510 Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest was born. Saint Francis Borgia. H … more →

Tags: History, alcan highway, Bill Gates, Blue flame, Canaletto, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Czechoslovakia, Dame Cleo Laine, Francis Borgia

Kiss My Gun Case

The Author wrote 1 month ago: Evelyn Waugh (1903—1966) is one of my favorite comic novelists.  His prose is clean and elegan … more →

Tags: Humor

Edmund Crispin - Best Tales of Terror

demonik wrote 1 month ago: Edmund Crispin [Robert Bruce Montgomery] – Best Tales of Terror (Faber and Faber, 1962) Edmund … more →

Tags: Faber, Edmund Crispen, Fiction, Horror, Terror, Robert Aickman, Roald Dahl, Vault of Evil, L T C Rolt

I've been sniffing about 2 comments

Stephen Foster wrote 1 month ago: I found this remark from George Orwell on Evelyn Waugh, ‘He’s about as good a novelist a … more →

Tags: From Working-Class Hero to Absolute Disgrace (A Memoir, GEORGE ORWELL

Work, Sleep, Socialize...Read?

eileenguo wrote 1 month ago: College is all about time management.  Since we’re not actually in class for 7 hours a day or … more →

Tags: Tufts Life, Work, sleep, social life, Books, late night study, Tisch, Procrastination, Time Management

Brideshead [re]visited6 comments

Stephen Foster wrote 1 month ago: I read two books by Evelyn Waugh on holiday, A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited. Both were t … more →

Tags: From Working-Class Hero to Absolute Disgrace (A Memoir, Brideshead Revistited, tortilla flat, Steinbeck

Rhymes With Good House1 comment

Mulholland Kevin wrote 1 month ago: Happiness. The world wants it. You say you want it. But do you? Do you really? Do you dare? Are you … more →

Tags: Reading, Amusements, waugh, Wodehouse, Scoop, p. g. wodehouse, Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, happiness

Man and Sin11 comments

Matthew Miller wrote 1 month ago: Have you ever looked at Christian fiction?  Every other book has some girl in a bonnet and some guy … more →

Tags: Christian Civilization, Sin, God, Brideshead Revisited

Thunderbird 007

Dell Deaton wrote 2 months ago: As it stands, neither the first and the last Ford Thunderbird associated with 007 is actually a vehi … more →

Tags: "Casino Royale" (1953), "Die Another Day" (2002), "The Letters of Ann Fleming", Andrew Lycett, "Ian Fleming", Biographies, Brands, Collateral, Eon Productions / Danjac, Ford

MWF: Alexander Waugh

nickgadd wrote 2 months ago: A few years ago I read Alexander Waugh’s marvellous biography of five generations of his famil … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Writers I admire, Writers' festivals and events, Alexander Waugh, fathers and sons, Melbourne Writer's Festival, MWF

Richard Brookhiser's "Happy Darkies" 23 comments

Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 months ago: My August Deconstruction Zone column for Pop Matters deconstructs Richard Brookhiser’s new mem … more →

Tags: POP MATTERS, Rodger Jacobs, (de)construction zone, Richard Brookhiser, right time right place, William F. Buckley Jr., conservatism, racism, Ted Kennedy

Book Recommendation: Literary Converts by Joseph Pearce1 comment

djeter wrote 2 months ago: A reader at Amazon wrote: “Starting with Oscar Wilde (of all people) and ending more or less with th … more →

Tags: Book Recommendations, G. K. Chesterton, Malcolm Muggeridge, C. S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, Robert Hugh Benson, I cannot soar and sing my Lord and love, Christopher Dawson, Maurice Baring

"Click goes the camera and on goes life..."

Dody Jane wrote 3 months ago: The Lygon Family influenced Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. “I often think there is nothing … more →

Tags: Literary Adventures, Brideshead Revisited, Literature, Lygon, Mitford, nancy mitford, Paula Byrne, waugh

The Russell Files, Episode 2

frmarkdwhite wrote 3 months ago: Today is the 1,751st anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Lawrence the Deacon. Last fall, we highligh … more →

Tags: Arguments for the faith, Books, Magazines, Movies, Music, etc., Saints, Sports, America Magazine, Bertrand Russell, Brideshead Revisited, charles ryder, Jeremy Irons


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