Travelogue
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Thoughts across eras - in books
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It's surprising how certain ideas and concepts seem to be transmitted across eras and writers. I was reading a chapter of the book/col...
Sunday, September 23, 2018
TV movie - Haven (2001)
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With the US, many countries in Europe and elsewhere wracked by anti-immigrant sentiments, it's instructive to go back to a time when ...
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Movie 'Amistad' (1997)
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There are movies made with a high degree of cinematic finesse, with or (sometimes) without a substantial story or content, which cater to t...
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Friday, September 21, 2018
Book review - 'My Autobiography' by Charles Chaplin
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This must be the second most... ummm... fulfilling book I've read in recent times ('War and Peace' is a perennial favourite - ...
Sunday, September 09, 2018
Movie - 'It's A Wonderful Life' (1946)
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There's a certain charm about olden movies which, while telling a jolly good story, manage to take in a lot about a span of time and a ...
Friday, August 31, 2018
Book review - 'The Scapegoat' by Daphne du Maurier
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Many (most?) of us may've wondered, at some point or other, how our life would've been if we were actually living not our own li...
Wednesday, August 01, 2018
Book review - 'Cosmos' by Carl Sagan
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#cosmos #carlsagan (Just my personal perspectives on the book - it'd be pretentious on my part to 'review' a stupendous w...
Book review - 'Chasing the Monsoon' by Alexander Frater
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#monsoon And what a chase it was! it starts off as a simple story of a British journalist resolving to literally 'chasing the mons...
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Book review - 'A Room With A View' (EM Forster)
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#aroomwithaview This is the first Forster novel I've completed in full (not counting Forster snippets read somewhere or parts of ...
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