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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Week 1
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The list of titles ahead being somewhat daunting, I fear that several of these volumes will defeat me, drive my brain to distraction with sixty page digressions on the miserable working conditions of miners in 19th Century English mining towns or devastatingly dull critiques on the minutiae [...]

Twenty Six Books

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Do you read, dear Reader? I read. I read all day. But what do I read, aye, there’s the rub. Email in the morning and then, with trembling heart, I venture to the RSS feeds and hurl myself into the backwash and slime of the interwebs. First to my friends and aquaintances, then a division [...]