The Black Company

One of the problems with listening to audio books is that it’s not so easy to quote them in your blog. Currently I am listening to The Black Company by Glen Cook. It has some fine sentences in it. The words are very well chosen. The vocabulary is advanced yet unostentatious. Mr Cook eschews ornamentation. [...]

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Don’t run away from sex

I don’t want you to think I’m a pervert but ever since I wrote favourably about a self-published teenage blog novel called Eyeleash, the author keeps sending me the prolific outpourings of her fertile female imagination. She publishes these as e-books and gets rave reviews from her readers. I think she doesn’t really need any [...]

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House of dreams

Today I woke up from a dream in a reasonably happy frame of mind. I’d been cleaning out one of my houses where I’d lived with my daughter and Lanying. It was a sprawling old house with lots of rooms on many floors. There were things in there I never knew I had. I’d thrown [...]

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