A while back I wrote about a dog that lived near my friends house, a young female named Molly. Her owner treated her poorly and we tried to contact the people who have the power to do something about animal cruelty and nobody wanted to do anything. This was last winter around Christmas. she had no meat on her bones, they often gave her cat food (don't know why) and she was tied inside a shed where she lay in her own urine and worse. My friend saw her again this summer and said her condition was ...
This is my cat, Puck. We've had him for a long time, about 18 years, I think. He is three years younger than Sukey, who was 20 when she passed on, on New Year's Day, 2009. Anywho, it looks like we might have Puck with us for awhile longer. He is an extremely friendly, and indolent animal. He rarely moves. This has been his habit for as long as I've known him. He finds a place and camps out ...
Updated 08-04-2011 at 02:18 PM by qimissung
Finally got round to reading "The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" and the "Norwegian Wood" by the Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami. And what a dissapointment it was on both books! "Norwegian Wood" started well and then went downhill!....in the end I did not care for any of the characters except one! The "Hard-Boiled Wonderland..." again I had no connection with the characters. Only thing ...
If you have never heard of it, the contest is a hilarious parody. The objective is to write the worst opening of a novel in imitation of an actual 19th century English novelist, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. It was Bulwer-Lytton who wrote this opening: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the ...
I got to go book shoping today at my favorite little bookstore. So here is what I got this time: Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis Island by Aldous Huxley The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from her Unpublished works The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahirir A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes A Clash of Kings by Geroge R. Martin
Recent Comments
