Category Archives: Novels with pictures in them

Michael Ondaatje’s Billy the Kid

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Patrick Lennon

Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is not really a novel and not really a volume of poetry either. It’s less than a hundred pages long and most of those consist of only a few lines of … Continue reading →

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On the shelf: Jack Finney’s Time and Again

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Patrick Lennon

I like browsing in second-hand bookshops. I realize that more and more. I haven’t been to a ‘regular’ bookshop in a long time. It’s not that I don’t like first-hand bookshops (if you can call them that). I do, but … Continue reading →

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Important Artifacts etc.

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Patrick Lennon

There are good ideas that turn out to be good ideas, like the paper clip, or the safety pin. And then there are those good ideas that turn out to be not so good, like the automatic seat belt in … Continue reading →

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