How do you paint a picture of a city?
Cities are places of man-made structures. The attractions they have often lead us to perceiving them as beautiful, which theyContinue Reading
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Failed to finish it – Tom Hanks’ “The Making of…”
This novel has a long title; The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece. It alliterates nicely, and I’m sureContinue Reading
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From one book discovery to the next – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs screenplay
One of the enjoyable aspects of reading, is that in the process of sniffing out a particular book or authorContinue Reading
Read the books before you judge the films – GoT and Florence Foster Jenkins
Game of Thrones has now ended, and amid the uproar about the storyline and perceived-as-unsatisfactory conclusion of the final season, despairingContinue Reading
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The mystery of the misquoted quote from “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”
Sometimes, a line from a book or a film just sounds to good to resist. It sticks in your headContinue Reading
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When the film is better than the book – A Man Called Ove
I think people fall into three categories: 1) those who read the book first, then go see the film ofContinue Reading
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All the Best Lines, by George Tiffin
For New Year 2016 I engaged my brain to delve into some interesting new non-fiction. These are not obvious choicesContinue Reading
A “tint of indefinable substance” – Rhino Ranch, by Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry knows how to write, that’s for sure. His writing style is perfectly suited to the settings of many ofContinue Reading
“Corner Gas” – The Comedy of Brent Butt and the Canadian Psyche
At the time that I relocated to Canada from South Africa, I thought that the situation down in Southern AfricaContinue Reading
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