I’ve just discovered a great blog, Great Books ~ A Chapter a Day. It’s, well, it’s great. Listen to classic books from some of the world’s best known and respected authors – an ideal way to expand your horizons, catch up on your classics “reading” list, or listen to books everyone you know says they’ve…

I’ve started reading Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. I mention Melville’s name not because there is another Moby Dick (a Disney prequel about Ahab’s troubled youth where he forgets to believe in himself?). but because I’m afraid it’s too easy to think of this book as unbirthed, always swimming around in the deep like the whale…

I’m in love with Gene Wolfe’s Book of The New Sun. That is, if love is a sick confused feeling. Here’s my final review of The Book of the New Sun and The Urth of The New Sun.

This weekend is sort of the start of summer up here in the frozen wastes of Canada, a perfect time for hot dogs I think. I made some last night, steamed buns and everything. Unfortunately, I was out of mustard. Clearly I need some help. And, despite the national past-time of most Canadians being Making-Fun-Of-Americans,…

I’m one of those parents that buys books for his future child, my son at age nine, fourteen and so on. I remember confusing the bookseller at the flea market when I told her I was buying Susan Cooper’s set of The Dark is Rising novels for my then infant son. Not so bookish, but…