With Thursday's 'Proustian epiphany' still fresh in my mind, and my 'patient' wait for the books to arrive continuing, you can imagine there's still a lot of Proust fever going on in my head at the moment. My regular reading of course continues, but … [Read more...]
[Sunday Salon] : John Updike’s six ‘golden’ rules for book reviewing
February 1, 2009 By 11 Comments
The recent and devastating news of John Updike’s passing has been prevalently reported over the past few days, and for good reason - the man, by all accounts, was a literary legend. And, while I shamefully admit to having never read any of Mr. … [Read more...]
[Sunday Salon] : First-class reading advice from Virginia Woolf
January 18, 2009 By 6 Comments
Typical for yesterday afternoon, I was sitting at home flicking through the ‘review’ section of the Saturday Guardian (that’s the ‘bookish’ flavoured bit for those who don’t know), when I stumbled across a ‘rare’ reprint of Virginia … [Read more...]
[Sunday Salon] : Meet Steinbeck – a bouncy, hair-covered obstacle in my reading routine
January 4, 2009 By 6 Comments
First of all a Happy New Year to all my fellow Sunday Saloners. I hope you all had a great holiday period and received as many wonderful bookish gifts as I did. I'll be speaking more about these in subsequent posts but I wanted to use my first Sunday … [Read more...]
[Sunday Salon] – Wishing everyone a very merry ‘bookish’ Christmas!
December 21, 2008 By 5 Comments
I promised myself I wouldn’t file another Sunday Salon post unless I had something worthwhile to write about, and so far I’ve stuck to that promise. However I couldn’t let the Sunday before Christmas pass, without taking the time and … [Read more...]
[Sunday Salon] – New additions, a fresh challenge and seeing novels from the writing side
November 2, 2008 By 9 Comments
Greeting Sunday people! You know, this Sunday Salon is beginning to feel more like a Daily Salon. It only seems like yesterday that I was posting last week’s submission. Then again when I was a kid my dad always used to tell me that life hurtles … [Read more...]
[Sunday Salon] – Restoring my faith that children DO still read
October 26, 2008 By 8 Comments
With video games, mobile phones and social networking vying for their time, our youngsters today seem more than ever, inclined to ignore the ‘basic’ task of book reading. We hear all the time, how literacy levels in our children are dropping, and … [Read more...]
[Sunday Salon] – Read-a-Thon and Ongoing Challenges Update
October 19, 2008 By 7 Comments
Sadly it's only a short meaningless Sunday Salon post from me today (do I ever offer anything else :o)) as I'm suffering the fallout of participating in my first 24 Hour Read-a-Thon. I managed to read three titles in the 24-hour period, way less … [Read more...]
[Sunday Salon] – Me Being Cheesy and a Fraction of The Whole
October 12, 2008 By 12 Comments
Has it really been a week since the last Sunday Salon already? I remember sitting here roughly this same time last weekend wondering what to write about, and here I am a one-week veteran of the Sunday Salon and……err……I’m still wondering … [Read more...]