|
||||||
|
Minions of the Great Pumpkin Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest [...] Read more » I had plans to write much more in the blog here, but of course there is always something to interfere. In this case it was actually a technical issue. I could not administer the site, whenever I tried it would give me an internal server 500 Error. ‘The Bell Jar’ is a recent classic written by the accomplished writer Sylvia Plath. This post is not so much a review of the book, but my feelings when I read it. One does not review classics, one absorbs them and becomes enriched by them. It was hard for me to imagine myself completely in Esther’s [...] Read more » ‘Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking’ is a rather interesting book on how people often behave when faced with a decision without much time to think. The author, Malcolm Gladwell, persues different studies and situations to back up his theory of how people process information and make decisions. When I first read this book I [...] Read more » It has come to my attention that there are a lot more books that I have read that I have failed to review in my own blog. There will now be a short wave of reviews, most of the books I have read a short while ago. In the future I will try to write [...] Read more » This Wednsday my father and his partner Marion came to visit my family. He really came to see my son, his latest Grandson, but my wife and I happened to be around also so they tolerated our presence. They stayed for two days. The first day overall went just ok. There were good times, like both [...] Read more » I finally found my treasured gift of ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell’ and cracked open the last book. It took me, including interruptions from things like work and my son, about 3 days to read it. It was over way too soon. I loved this last part! It was chock full of intrigue, madness, magical [...] Read more » Well, I love getting new books and I was very much on the fence in terms of diet, thinking of going at least vegetarian. This book looks like it could be an excellent starting point. If nothing else, this would just be another book in my library. That is never a bad thing.Read the Article at [...] Read more » This was a major surprise, at least to me. Congratulations, President Obama. I once again salute you with pride.Read the Article at HuffingtonPost addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwolfsongs.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fobama-wins-nobel-peace-prize%2F’; After reading this post, I have a new favorite HP section. By Far. I look forward to reading this book!Read the Article at HuffingtonPost addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwolfsongs.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fannouncing-my-first-pick-for-the-huffpost-book-club-in-praise-of-slowness%2F’; |
|
|||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Howling out loud! - All Rights Reserved |
||||||
Shelfari
Loading ...