book review

See it, say it, sorted II

Or, probably “not sorted” ——- I’ve been reading Günther Grass, Dog Years. (To explain the title)… It follows the ancestry, life, background, and now the outcome of Hitler’s black German Shepherd dog, Prinz. But the book is, I think, not about the dog, nor any of its characters, nor Hitler, nor the war or Germany.ContinueContinue reading “See it, say it, sorted II”

How to be a man

I’ve just finished reading a Hemingway novel, “To have or have not”. It’s one that I started reading a long time ago, but made such slow progress with, that perhaps the library recalled the book, or I lost it, or rendered it unreadable, with damp and dirt…. It made so little impression on me, thatContinueContinue reading “How to be a man”