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Peddling the Dirt

The final 'busted-bone' chapter. Peddling the Dirt - Baltic Germany.

Day 10 - 'I Love Germany'.

Peddling the Dirt; Baltic Germany

Day 7, part 3 has been posted at lunch.lt.

The Complaints (Malcolm Fox #1)

Ian Rankin

Orion Books

[Gifted paperback]

Excellent book, one of Ian Rankin's best. It was a little hard for me not having any of my familiar and favourite characters. It seems to me that more Rankin writes the fresher, sharper and better he gets. 

This was a well spun yarn.

Peddling the Dirt

Day 7, part 2 of 'Peddling the Dirt - Baltic Germany' has been posted over at lunch.lt. Pop over and take a wee read.

The Blue Guitar

John Banville

Penguin
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[borrowed paperback]

This was a beautifully written book with way too many words and not enough story. It became a speed read and then later a skim read.

2/5

Adventures

Hello. I am going on an adventure. I will riding my bicycle across the USA & Canada. This means during the southern hemisphere winter or 2017 things at 'late for supper' will be a bit quiet.

If you want to know where I am and what I am up to, follow this link or click on the picture.

niveous haze

niveous mist wisps and winds through steeples tall, along
cobbles flat and up your trouser leg. women cower on buses
clutching

                          gloves and bags. Michelin kids slip and slide
wide-eyed tasting skies of their failing flaying youth

the haves shop until they drop and have-nots drop at the shop
collecting alms doing no harm, but spoiling foiling illusions of
'good tidings for you and your kin'

street windows, flat screens, screaming wars, on the hour every
hour, Aleppo letting go

downloaded and freeloaded an aroma kicks the coma. Coffee to
see, to set free, my tunes, iTunes, oh it's such A Beautiful Life.

a cross on a spire, a flurry, a story, an electric fire. Santa calls,
snow falls, the barista waits, Jesus weeps

daylight sleeps, darkness creeps, chills spill, dammit this planet
stops a spinning, no one's winning, no one notices

Christmas          effortless meaningless, unless of course your horse,
your saviour entered this tragically, magically juxtaposed hard-
nosed space & place

to rescue men [and possibly women too] from their sorrowful
pitiful sinful ways


                       this Yuletide faze, this yearly craze,
                                           it's rather a random kingdom
                                                                           niveous haze

Favourite books of 2016

No. 1 No. 2 No. 4 No.3 No. 5

Hue & Cry 8

Hue & Cry Press

[Journal]

I read this at a busy time. It was a good read with highlights from Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, Sarah Jane-Barnett and Gemma Bowker-Wright

3/5

Our Journey with the Vineyard

Jan Bernard Struik

[Gifted hardcover]

I loved reading this book. On one hand the story read like looking through a family photo album full of our favourite people. On the other hand it was a simple personal story full of lots of tidbits on pastoring, church planting and kingdom living. From cover to cover Jan Bernard's writing is laden with the sweet and subtle presence of the Holy Spirit.

I will not give this book a rating. If I did it would be a 10 out of 5. Jan Bernard and Tineke are dear friends of ours and I cannot separate our love for them from the literary value of Jan Bernard's written journey.