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Lazy Sunday Reads
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Really Want to Read But Don’t Own… Yet
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Even though my physical and digital book shelves are stacked with tons of books that I haven’t read yet, I can’t help always looking for new … Continue reading
The Sunday Salon: The Athlete and the Artist
He pelting stars, he pelting the sun He skipping stones to Buckingham Palace He pelt down the gold mango from the tallest tree, as I pelt this pen to the sky. Christian Campbell The Crown Prince of Pelters Scrolling through … Continue reading
First Post at Fresh Milk Books
The General In His Labyrinth is the first work by Marquez that I’ve read since he passed away in April. It is also the first review that I’ve written as a Fresh Milk Books contributor. I chose my first Fresh Milk … Continue reading
Monthly Wrap-up: May
While not being the best time for reading, a lot of cool literary things went down this month. Festivals and Readings Two days after the Bim Lit Fest, the The University of the West Indies (in collaboration with Callaloo, a … Continue reading
An evening of the Quiet Warrior
Last saturday evening Lisa and I found ourselves sitting on one of the built-in stone benches in the Independence Square. The square had been temporarily dubbed the ‘The University of Independence Square’, making reference to the famous University Of Woodford … Continue reading
Readathon Wrap-up
So this weekend I participated in the 24 in 48 Readathon, my first readathon, which was hosted by Rachel at a home between pages. As much fun as the readathon was, my bird-like reading style of snatching a few pages … Continue reading
Just some stuff…
Tales of Old Japan So recently there was post on GalleyCat about a new Samurai flick starring Keanu Reeves called 47 Ronin, which is ‘loosely based on a Japanese story.’ This isn’t the first film adaption. One was done back … Continue reading
Ishiguro on the Boardwalk Day 1
My first morning listening to The Remains of The Day while running was okay, but there were some problems. I hit play and allowed Nigel Hawthorne’s voice to wash over me. The narration of the head butler of Darlington Hall, … Continue reading
The Wandering Bookmark 