Posted in Books, Fiction, Kurt Vonnegut, Writers, Writing on July 15th, 2006 No Comments »
This is an anniversary year. Mind you, every year is an anniversary year of something. Every day could be used to celebrate an event – public or private, births, deaths, weddings and so on. (Today, for example, The History Channel tells us, “The great Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is born in Leiden on July […]
Posted in Books, Poetry, Writing on June 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Damn that guy over at Living the Romantic Comedy (Billy Mernit). He posted Rebirth of a Ladies’ Man and now I’m back into one of my Leonard Cohen phases.
His post has actually been there a few days but I’ve been too busy to read it. Yes, I could have scanned it quickly but his posts […]
Posted in Books, Reading on June 4th, 2006 3 Comments »
I recently finished reading Ava Gardner: ‘Love is Nothing’ by Lee Server and it’s nothing if not entertaining. Somewhere, he makes mention of her living life “like a rocket.â€
It’s an apt description but I think I’d say she lived like she drove cars – fast, carefree and just a little bit out of control (and […]
Posted in Books, General, Reading on June 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
I’ve started a number of posts today and didn’t complete any of them. I think I’m dealing with the residual effects of last week.
But I may have embarked on a new project. If I’m ambitious, I’ll weave it in to another little project I’m planning. If I’m not ambitious (and this is the more likely […]
Posted in Books, Business, General on April 17th, 2006 No Comments »
On the right you can see where I stick that Amazon ad. Every so often I change it up. They’re books I’ve read or am reading that I think are worthwhile. I’m working on the assumption that the few ads I place on here aren’t too annoying. Of course, over the time I’ve had them […]
Posted in Books, Fiction on April 16th, 2006 No Comments »
I’m not sure if it’s me, something in recent culture or a combination of the two, but I’ve recently read a number of books that have revisited the Victorian period, particularly Sherlock Holmes.
Contradictory though this sounds, they’ve been a bit like Victorian literature with a contemporary sensibility.
I’m thinking specifically of four novels (of greater or […]
Posted in Books, Business, Marketing on April 7th, 2006 No Comments »
I haven’t started reading it yet but I’ve picked up The Big Moo, which has the nice line at the top of the cover, “Stop trying to be perfect and start being remarkable.†Well, I can assent to that (though being neither perfect nor remarkable I can’t claim to have any authority on these […]
Posted in Blogs, Books, Reading on March 12th, 2006 2 Comments »
It’s interesting to me that this blog is called Writelife, implying it is about writing – actually, it purports to be about writing. And yes, it is about writing even if occasionally it concerns it only in a roundabout way.
What I find intriguing is that, though not necessarily obvious, it’s really about reading. But, as […]
Posted in Fiction, Writing on March 6th, 2006 No Comments »
I am clearly not a rabble rouser. I am not a party animal. My pleasures seem to be of a quieter sort. Such as today (which, as I write, is actually tomorrow, Mountain time - it’s already Monday).
The first part of my day was enthusiatically taken up with an online course I’m taking through NewsU. […]
Posted in Books, Business, Marketing on February 1st, 2006 1 Comment »
I just wanted to direct attention over to Seth Godin’s free download, Flipping the Funnel. It’s a new e-book, PDF format. He says:
This new ebook (3 versions, 18 pages each, PDF format) explains how I believe some of the new Web 2.0 tools (flickr, del.icio.us, squidoo and others) combine with ideaviruses and the Purple Cow.
I […]
