Book Review: The Bears of Cold, Cruel England: Stories – by Mick Jackson
A sin-eating bear (from the Mick Jackson website) When my grandson was staying with us last summer, six-year-old Jack spotted The Bears of Cold, Cruel England and asked me to read to him from it. He...
View ArticleMusic Review: Dinky: ‘Dimension D’
Released by the innovative Visionquest on 25 June, Dimension D is Dinky’s fifth studio album, but her first venture into singer-songwriter territory. She sings and plays several different instruments...
View ArticleMusic Review: Acoustic Endeavors –‘On a Farm’
I happened to be staying at the Fincastle Winery Bed and Breakfast just outside Roanoke, Virginia the night of June 29, 2013 when local bluegrass band Acoustic Endeavors played a set in the field below...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Mind’s Eye’ by Oliver Sacks
Dr Oliver Sacks ‘To what extent are we the authors, the creators, of our own experiences? How much are these predetermined by the brains or senses we are born with, and to what extent do we shape...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘As I Lay Dying’ by William Faulkner
Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in six weeks while working nights at a power plant. It was his seventh novel, published in 1930 when he was 33 (he died in 1962, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for...
View ArticleTV Review: ‘In Treatment – Season One’
For some years HBO has been producing the best TV drama in the English language. Quintessentially American themes and settings are central in Boardwalk Empire, John Adams, The Sopranos, The Wire and...
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