“The Call of the Wild” as a New Movie
My wife got us tickets to a preview screening last week of The Call of the Wild, a film adaptation of Jack London’s novel, directed by Chris Sanders, written by Michael Green, and starring Harrison…
Category: literature
A Few Books by Charles Dickens
My literary book club did Dickens last week, focusing on A Christmas Carol. I was glad I wasn’t the only one who felt compelled, when I read it, to read it aloud, or at least…
Feeding on the Spectres in Books
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions …
On “The Innocents Abroad” and “The Odyssey”
I’ve been reading Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad for a literary book club. I’d never read it before, although I love great travel writing like John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley, Jonathan Raban’s Old Glory (an…
My First Book Club Experience
I think one of the side effects of being a lifelong reader, is a certain level of introversion. Or maybe it’s the other way round. At any rate, I tend to avoid highly social settings,…