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You can find wonderful variety in Greene. Certainly he wrote something for everybody. The Power and the Glory - troubles in Mexico The Human Factor - a spy The Ministry of Fear - the London Blitz and more. I like to try a new Greene every once in a while but no two are alike.

Sorry. I don't want to read your book.

Someone has said that the most beautiful phrase in the English language is summer afternoon. That is two words, but undeniably beautiful. I defy you to say it fast. It lingers in the mouth.

You bring back a warm memory of reading Dr. Seuss books to/with my kids. We liked Horton and the On beyond Zebra one plus, of course, the CAT. Sometimes when things go wrong and a lot of stuff (mostly minor) slips out of control, I think about the Cat.

well, maybe just the scar, but not in context.

I keep an intended-reading shelf. Books find me, the way weeds find a garden. People give me books, I belong to a book exchange, I inhabit local library book sales, I get "paid" sometimes for lectures with B&N gift cards. Just as gourmet cooks (not me, but among my relatives) always have...

I have read several of McCullough's books with great pleasure. Some are related to specific people like Truman or Theodore Roosevelt, but the one I enjoyed most was The Path between the Seas. It is the story of the Panama Canal. Why did the French fail when, after all, they built the Suez Canal...

Live a few years and then reread some of the books you liked (or maybe only respected) when you were younger. I have recently been rereading for several book groups I belong to: The Grapes of Wrath Out of Africa Bleak House They do not disappoint, in fact they bring a new experience - or...

Having recently reread Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, I also looked at the movie again. Very affecting. The acting was a bit theatrical in places, but it worked. Straight-on story telling too. They really don't make them like that any more.

Fictitious story? All stories are fictitious. What's wrong with that? Try to write down everything you did yesterday and everything you thought while you were doing it. You can't. You have to select, and thus fiction is created. Just a little philosophy to entertain you while you struggle...

Take a look at the documentary Supersize Me. After that you will be motivated to take MacDonald's money but not eat the food. I can top you - or bottom you - all on first job with low pay. The summer of 1949 I worked behind the counter at Woolworth's for 60-cents an hour. Before I left, they...

Fifth suggestion. Get your own clickable pen. Each time he clicks once, you click twice (a double click) and see if you can get some syncopation going with him.

This is so true that, recently, I said in a post that the setting in the movie The Kite Runner looked like Afghanistan, even though I had heard that it was filmed in China. Whereupon, another poster asked if I was an Afghan or had been there. No. What I meant was that the Afghanistan in the...

I have read War and Peace, but not until a few years ago. I'm retired now, so have time to take on projects like that. It is just as well that I waited, since I'm not sure I would have enjoyed the book as much when I was younger. War and Peace is not a book you can master, certainly not in...

You also have all the writers who turn out "new" Sherlock Holmes adventures. Of course, Arthur Conan Doyle is dead and in no position to protest.

I often visualize - and I hear the dialog too.

No single book is responsible, but rather my parents' custom of reading to me before I could read for myself. I was particularly fond of The Wizard of Oz. We must have had 14 or 15 books of the series, but I only remember my mother reading the first one. On the day I realized that I could...

Why store magazines at all? Throw them out! Once gone, rarely regretted. I do keep old Consumer Reports for 5 years in a stack, so that my dh can look things up. That's probably about 4 years too long because nothing sold over one year ago can be bought now. The model has changed, the features...

Solipsism gets a bad rap by many philosophers, but to me it is an attractive concept. Wikipedia defines it: Solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is the philosophical idea that "My mind is the only thing that I know exists." To me, this is true. The world "out there" is known to me...

Surely it is homage to Shakespeare who wrote poetic drama!