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Fiona wrote 1 day ago: Iris You know more about me than anyone. You are my world. (Iris (2001) The young Iris Murdoch to Jo … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poem, Iris

Dharma Bites-The Love that Brings Right Answers2 comments

Steven Goodheart wrote 3 days ago: “The love which brings the right answer to moral problems is an exercise of justice and realis … more →

Tags: Buddhism, dharma/dhamma, meditation, Mindfulness, attention, dharma bite

Good Reads, Smart Readers: A New View of E-Books 1 comment

alyssaleal wrote 6 days ago: Jane Friedman at SCPS-NYU Center for Publishing “To be a success, you only have to be right 51% of t … more →

Tags: M.S. in Publishing, Bob Miller, code and theory, E-Books, eBooks, Grove Atlantic, HarperCollins, HarperStudio, Jane Friedman

Books for Book Groups...15 comments

savidgereads wrote 1 week ago: After my previous post on a few things Book Group orientated and The Riverside Readers I said that I … more →

Tags: book group, Book Thoughts, book groups, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, GEORGE ORWELL, Hariku Murakami, Harper Lee, Ian McEwan, Indra Sinha

Iris Murdoch - The Sandcastle12 comments

verbivore wrote 3 weeks ago: The Sandcastle begins with a fractious dialogue between Mor (the main character) and his wife Nan. I … more →

Tags: Book Review, Books, Contemporary Fiction

Dostoyevsky's Style2 comments

Joseph wrote 1 month ago: I like to think of myself as a connoisseur of style. In my ambitious youth I teased myself with Home … more →

Tags: Reading, writing, brothers karamazov, Dostoyevsky, stamp duty reserve tax, Style, Terry Pratchett

Iris Murdoch - "Under The Net", (1954)1 comment

dadwhowrites wrote 1 month ago: So what happens? The narrator of Iris Murdoch’s Under The Net, Jake Donaghue, is a complete wa … more →

Tags: Books, G. K. Chesterton, London, Review, Under the Net, writing

who says we're not?

M. E. Wickham wrote 2 months ago: “People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to ha … more →

Tags: Flowers, Blog Challenges, Beauty, cardinal climber, flowering vine, Capturing Beauty's Rainbow Challenge, mad with joy, a planet without flowers

Learn to Love1 comment

9atha wrote 2 months ago: … more →

Tags: Quote, Love, learn

Platón y los artistas, según Iris Murdoch

filosofiaha wrote 2 months ago: http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8636094 Aunque su actitud hacia el arte es cambiante, para Platón el … more →

Tags: Platon, Artistas

Weekend Movies – September2 comments

Zoya wrote 2 months ago: Although I had plenty of time to maybe finish off a book or 2, I had to halt the marathon since a co … more →

Tags: Movies, Steve Martin, Kate Winslet, pink panther, Pink Panther 2, Pink Panther Film, Iris, Judi Dench, Inspector Clouseau

Another Evangelical De-conversion Story3 comments

fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: Books like these, by former evangelicals who have lost their faith, seem to be proliferating.  The H … more →

Tags: Book Review, Religion and Spirituality, Christianity, Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, not that kind of girl, Carlene Bauer

Antichrist morality1 comment

nhelmgrovas wrote 3 months ago: Lars von Trier A recent article by Christopher Hart in the Mail has criticised Danish director Lars … more →

Tags: Viewpoint, Philosophy, Morality, ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, Art, Cinema, Lars von Trier

Review: Iris (2001)

asaur wrote 3 months ago: I imagine Iris would have made a far greater impression on me had I known something of the person or … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Film Review, Iris, James Horner, Jim Broadbent, John Bayley, Judi Dench, Kate Winslet

Narrator of The Philosopher's Pupil

paullamb wrote 3 months ago: I’ve been writing a bit about narrative voice lately on this humble blog, and in a recent post … more →

Tags: Rants and Ruminations, Philosopher's Pupil, Narrative voice

All narration is in first person

paullamb wrote 3 months ago: When you think about it (and you really ought to think about such things), all narration is in first … more →

Tags: Rants and Ruminations, first person narrator, The Philosopher's Pupil, Voice

Coming up on Vulpes Libris - A rhino and a blue moose

Lisa wrote 3 months ago: Yes, you read the title correctly, the Book Foxes are branching out to other members of the animal k … more →

Tags: Entries by Lisa, Bluemoose Books, Glynis Ridley, Kevin Duffy, RNA annual convention, The Black Prince, The Other Hand, Vanessa Gebbie, Words from a glass bubble

Under the Net

mynameisgrey wrote 3 months ago: I was recently reading Under the Net by Iris Murdoch – apart from the fact that her books have a cer … more →

Tags: writing, Under the Net, France

Interstices of my reading

paullamb wrote 4 months ago: There was a time when I always had to be reading a novel. I had to have at least one novel I was cur … more →

Tags: Rants and Ruminations, elements of style


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