Dropped off at the airport 2.5 hours before my flight, so I had no excuse to not finish The Double, while waiting for take off. One thing I need to say, is that I really like reading at airports. I do… more →
The Novel Worldwrote 1 week ago: Edgar at the Bat: A Tale of Salvation With Apologies to Ernest L. Thayer and Casey At The Bat The ou … more →
wrote 1 month ago: The Eternal Husband is the kind of novel I imagine Fyodor Dostoevsky came up with in a weekend. It c … more →
wrote 1 month ago: An 1843 sculpture, by Antoine-Louis Barye, of Theseus slaying the Minotaur: Theseus’s entering … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Just finished reading The Double by José Saramago. It was my introduction to this Nobel Prize winnin … more →
wrote 2 months ago: A buddy sent me this song a couple days back, knowing I was a big fan of The Double, and I certainly … more →
wrote 3 months ago: (This post is for AZ, JH, CJ, and Russian bears throughout CAA.) Atlanta was a very enjoyable experi … more →
wrote 5 months ago: My best laid plans of blogging daily throughout the summer on my Dostoevsky experience is all for na … more →
wrote 7 months ago: It is reported that when the Americans captured Saddam Hussein, one of the first questions that aros … more →
wrote 9 months ago: This is part III of an interview with Kevin Kalal, a long-time member of the Tacoma Rainiers’ … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Why Haven’t You Been Posting, Daddy? Welcome to a slightly revamped, relaunch of Heir Apparent … more →
wrote 1 year ago: So back onto this idea of twins or doubles existing. I was looking into Jose Saramago, the Portugese … more →
wrote 1 year ago: At 27, I honestly believe that I missed out on the best periods of popular music. I couldn’t g … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Ali Smith’s The Accidental has a freaking form poem flight thing in the middle of it. No book … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Finally something blog-able that doesn’t require too much work or thinking. So, CR passed me a … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Dropped off at the airport 2.5 hours before my flight, so I had no excuse to not finish The Double, … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I feel I’ve read far enough into this book to start making some observations. First off, the b … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I had been blessed and cursed by having a dad who loved the game of baseball. I was drug to the King … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I first read Blindness a few years ago and I was struck by the fluidity of the prose as well as by t … more →
wrote 2 years ago: No real surprises in the list of nominees for this season’s PFA Player of the Year Award, although M … more →