Kelvin Fowler's Blog, page 13

The Biblical Metanarritive

One God | One Plan | One Story

Bill Jackson

radicalmiddlepress

[Kindle eBook]

This is a very good book. An excellent reachable and well written retelling of an old story.
The book is really let down by a lack of referencing source material, graphics that did not fit my screen and a little ambiguity around bible verses.

The last chapter of the book seemed unnecessary, but was interesting. Though it was biblical, it was steeped very rigidly in American culture making it a little difficult for this Kiwi to process.

I read version 2.0 and I suspect that these issues will be solved in the next issue.

Again this book has excellent material, but it only gets a 3/5 because it is let down by how it is presented.

Morning Writing

Coffee (it was cheap), Miles Davis (through a new speaker) & 'Peddling the Dirt' (am finally leaving that island). Good morning all!!!

Morning Writing

Am having another attempt after losing last Monday's writing with a crashed computer and fried hard-drive. The coffee is bad and the jazz is normal, I hope the cricket is good.

Morning writing

Oh this is good coffee. Earl Hines and I are ' Peddling the Dirt ' this morning.

The Taliban Cricket Club

Timeri N. Murari

Allen & Unwin

[Borrowed paperback]

Nicely written book providing some interesting insight into living under the Afghani Taliban. The plot was incredibly predictable and as a result I could not get into it. The story seemed to get lost in the mediocre middle between well written and action. Basically it was a boring and pleasant read.

3/5

The Great Word G-d

[Gifted Paperback]

This book was a little out of my genre and a lot of fun. I especially like the poems written in multiple languages. Sometimes I translated them in my head and other times I simply enjoyed rolling new words off my tongue.

My favourites were; 'Stream Train Identity Needle memory Synchronicity', 'This is me too', 'Times New Roman', God's Country' and Listen.

[CONFLICT OF INTEREST; JAMES IS A FRIEND]

3.5

Morning Writing

Eddie Thompson, Jazz Piano and substandard coffee all agglutinates to form another dreary Klaipėda day.

Landfall 226

Edited by David Eggleton

Otago University Press

[Paperback]

Good value for money, I enjoyed the read.

I particularly enjoyed the work of Tina Shaw, Ben Brown, Alison Glenny, Nicholas Reid, Thom Conroy, Joan Fleming and Cy Mathews.

3/5

black poodle

'black poodle' was featured in 'Poetry Night NZ's' greatest hits.
listen to 'black poodle'

Poetry

Dave Brubeck and I are enjoying a coffee again. I am hoping to to draw inspiration from him, so far I have only got squiggles.