It’s been a few years since I read General Romeo Dallaire’s book Shake Hands with the Devil. In this book he recounts his time in Rawanda during the genocide, what it was like being the head of UN peace keeping mission which was more or less used to try and help the western world feel [...]
Archive for July, 2008
28 Jul
Encounters With the Writing Kind
Many of us probably think about meeting a particular author, I would love to meet Douglas Coupland for instance. And I’m sure if you know of someone that may be in your area you’ll go and meet them and maybe even ask if they’d sign one of their books for you. I’m sure you could [...]
24 Jul
Booking Through Thursday #15 – Beginnings
Well my friends it’s also been a long time since I’ve done a Booking Through Thursday but I’m back and I’m really excited about this Thursday’s topic. This week we are talking about first lines in novels we’ve read. The question is thus posed to us:
Here’s another idea about memorable first lines from books.
What are [...]
23 Jul
Graphic Novels Challenge – Mail Order Bride
This is a review that has been long in the making. I’ve tried writing it several time but to no avail. So it’s not due to lake of trying that this hasn’t been done yet, it’s that bad case of writers block I’ve been having. I hope it’s gone now and posts will be happening [...]
15 Jul
Non-Fiction Five – Book One
As part of the Non-Fiction Five Challenge I decided to start with my latest book obsession…graphic novels. And my “first selection” was actually it was two books that I read and will be reviewing as one. Art Spiegelman has been talked about for some time now and particularly his Maus books. I must add to [...]
14 Jul
The Classics Challenge
Well, I’m so excited about The Classics Challenge I have a few books that I’ve been wanting to read and need to get to. This will definitely help me dive back into the classical book world. I decided not to go into this challenge with a list but let the list build as I [...]
9 Jul
Orbis Terrarum Challenge – Germany
Well, this has been long in the works, thanks for everyone that gave me the tips on how to over come my writers block. It feels good to finally be able to sit down and update this site again. I’m almost as behind in my reading as I am in my writing but [...]
5 Jul
In Need of Help!
So, it’s been quite some time since I’ve posted anything here and believe me it’s not for lack of trying. I seem to have hit a rather large and hard mental block. I have a lot that I would like to write about it just not coming out. This is where you can step in [...]
