Odd Bits About Books
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The Sharks Are All Sharks
A little over a year ago I wrote about Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (here’s a link if you want a reminder) and it’s a great story. It’s a novella about an old man who is out fishing, which is slow and thoughtful until quite near the end when a bunch ofContinue reading “The Sharks Are All Sharks”
Shakespeare and the Serial Killer
I reckon you’ve probably heard of William Shakespeare, right? Given that he lived and wrote in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and that was quite a long time ago, so he must’ve been doing something right for us to still be reading, performing and watching his work four hundred years later. That beingContinue reading “Shakespeare and the Serial Killer”
How Not To Propose
Pride and Prejudice was Jane Austin’s second novel, published in 1813, and has never been out of print. In fact, I imagine it is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride and Prejudice must be doing something right, hey? It is a romantic novel of manners and also a satire, and many things in between. IfContinue reading “How Not To Propose”
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