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    Mister Rainbow The Omnibus Edition

    14 May 2017

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    The End of the Rainbow?

    14 May 2017

    A lot of water's gone under the bridge since i last wrote an entry. If you write for a living you don't feel like doing it in your spare time.

    I've got older. Funny thing to say, I know, but you're a different person when you're old just like you as a child are barely r...

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    Slick, fast and good with Verbs

    6 Feb 2017

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    Harold Q. Masur

    Well, he's the big one, apart from Dasheill and Raymond, that is,  a master of the genre- slick, fast and good with the verbs.. To my surprise, I find that he only died recently, having written  a few Alfred Hitchock Presents on the way.
    The Big Money starts in a...

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    The Humor of Pulp Fiction

    30 Jan 2017

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    The Big Sin by Jack Webb

    Another day, another work of pulp fiction, this time The Big Sin (they're always the Big Something), a tour de force in this demanding genre by Jack Webb.

    How good it is. A single suicide turns into a cause celebre when a catholic priest challenges the verdict- he knows...

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    We Are All Little Boys at Heart

    22 Jan 2017

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    Art, Life and the Other Thing By Ashliegh Wilson

    A friend lent me this book over Christmas- "you might know one of the players," she said. I was familiar with only a few but I know the times. I am 73, only a few years younger than Whiteley would have been had he lived.
    But he didn't of course, dead of an (accidental)...

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    My Middle Sized Brain

    16 Jan 2017

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    The Brain- by David Eagleman

    This is one of a rush of new books on this topic of which i am aware.
     The brain's a weird creature- even to try to understand what it is about is nyh impossible for someone like me with a middle-sized brain. We just have to have faith that the people writing about it...

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    It is a story of revenge, but it is not Monte Christo. It is a story of a young girl and an older man but it is not Lolita.

    9 Jan 2017

    One test I've taken to applying to books is that of memory: is it memorable?. It is an unfair test in one way- at 73 , my memory isn't what it used to be, if it ever was. But it has interesting results, nonetheless.
    It is only a couple of days since i finished Bereft,...

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    A Flawed Individual

    1 Nov 2016

    Graham Greene, for me, will be forever intriguing. A true writer, his mind and life are as intriguing as his own literature. This work attempts to shed light on a tiny cameo of that life - on Catherine -, the third woman of the title( more like 63rd) as well as the dar...

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    A strong sense of ethics

    6 Oct 2016

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    "Quiller Solitaire" by Adam Hall

    The Name of the protagonist-derived from the great critic, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch is indicative of the standard of writing. Adam Hall, who was Elliston Trevor, was a great writer.

    Quiller knows psychology and physiology like the back of his gun hand even though he doe...

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    It's Simple, just sketch every day

    29 Sep 2016

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    Sketching by John Mills

    Hot on the heels of the book by Churchill, this little gem produced in 1964. I don't know about you but, for me, finding a book that suits can be elusive.

    Well, this one suited me. Mills is reasonable and pragmatic. The book is packed with do's and don'ts which aren't t...

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    Mister Rainbow The Omnibus Edition

    May 14, 2017

    The End of the Rainbow?

    May 14, 2017

    Slick, fast and good with Verbs

    February 6, 2017

    The Humor of Pulp Fiction

    January 30, 2017

    We Are All Little Boys at Heart

    January 22, 2017

    My Middle Sized Brain

    January 16, 2017

    It is a story of revenge, but it is not Monte Christo. It is a story of a young girl and an older man but it is not Lolita.

    January 9, 2017

    A Flawed Individual

    November 1, 2016

    A strong sense of ethics

    October 6, 2016

    It's Simple, just sketch every day

    September 29, 2016

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