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Well, it had to happen sometime, and sure enough it eventually did on the Saturday of the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale when Brande...

The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer. Mehring (we never find out his first name, as far as I know) is a middle-aged South African ind...

A coincidental (or IS IT ?) follow-up to the second half of the last post : my wife, who knows my penchant for chilli products well, bought...

I'm just about keeping my head above water blog-wise with the book reviews and the noting of notable things in the worlds of golf ,  lit...

Another major golf championship completed, and another round of 63 to report on. This one was at the US Open and was posted by Justin Thom...

Hey, there was a general election recently. You might have missed it, so here are a couple of snippets. What I'm going to try and do is ...

Generally, Electric Halibut is fair and proportionate and equitable in his dealing out of death - the last five literary  victims of the on...

My two daughters are quite similar in lots of ways: both gorgeous (obviously), both fearsomely bright and articulate, both charmingly devote...

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Our narrator, who may or may not be called John (he suggests, half-jokingly, that we call him "...

Just a quick follow-up to expand slightly on my point about short novels from the last book post . I knocked together a list of ones that I ...

The Bridge Of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder. The eponymous bridge is a fabled and ancient wood and rope bridge of Inca construction ...

Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne. Phileas Fogg is having trouble with the domestic staff at his house. It's not, as y...

You might recall this fun bit of face-recognition software from a couple of years back that purported to tell you how old you looked. I was...

As either a belated Christmas present or an early joint birthday present (their birthdays are only a week apart) our girls recently acquired...

Here's another example (from the Daily Mail ) of a phenomenon you might call "subject slippage" or something similar - a bit ...