(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.co.uk) Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, Christopher Butler, once described postmodernism and its advocates as a “loosely constituted and…
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(Photo by Shawn Ho on Unsplash) Interpreting, Intuiting and Invoking motives Goading, encouraging and perpetuating sibilance Glint of deadly steel as knives are sharpened Deadlier anger…
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(Inage Credit: http://www.amazon.com) At the core of Niven Govinden’ s “Diary of a Film”, is another book. William Maxwell’s “The Folded Leaf”, influences,…
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(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.in) The Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic stood every bit of received wisdom relating to the concept…
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(Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash) Guzzling pints of beer with Deep Purple in the background rupturing our ear drums Deliberating over Gin…
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(Image Credit: http://www.barnesandnoble.com) Books can be like Russian Matryoshka dolls. Similar to these nested wooden dolls where one primary doll has many smaller…
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Bookend - Where reading meets review
Accidental Czar: The Life & Lies of Vladimir Putin – Andrew S. Weiss & Brian “Box” Brown
(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) An illustrated polemic, “Accidental Czar” takes pictorial potshots at the egregious President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. While the heavy lifting…
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Bookend - Where reading meets review
The Shaping of Us: How Everyday Spaces Structure Our Lives, Behaviour, and Well-Being – Lily Bernheimer
(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) How often do we pause to reflect about the benefits and disadvantages of a roundabout, other than when honking, hollering…
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(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) At the outset, I wish to gratefully acknowledge Tim Herfkens for leading me onto this wonderful book and an even…
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Laird Hunt’s formidable protagonist Zorrie Underwood of Clinton County is not so much a quintessential woman of the soil as she is the…