.....for Canada’s property owners, the housing crisis is no crisis at all. The worse it gets, the more money they make.
Rescuing Fiction | The real Don Quixote and why, and how, you might want to read him
I wish I had a dollar for every time the novel Don Quixote is mentioned and someone then has to make a remark about old fools charging at windmills. In a 2002 survey of 100 authors around the world, who were asked to name the book they considered to be the “most meaningful of all … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | The real Don Quixote and why, and how, you might want to read him
Rescuing Fiction | The Last Interview and Other Conversations | Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Though it made him famous and brought him financial independence, Márquez said more than once that he'd grown to hate the book.
Rescuing Fiction | Rescuing the Future| Mark Elf | my choice for the most unforgettable paragraph ever written
...... I have killed seventeen thousand, four hundred and sixty-nine enemies of the Sixth German Reich for sure, and I have..........
Rescuing Fiction | the quotable Birdcatcher | Are there any people more misunderstood than those who are solitary?
..... he and I stared at one another. Two men who despised one other, both knowing how easy murder was in the midst of combat.....
Rescuing Fiction | Dombey & Son | Charles Dickens the magician
.......this is a King Lear story, but with a different ending.
Rescuing Fiction | Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes | the antidote for introverts and those on the spectrum who long to enter the social world
The problem for those of us who love sincerely, is that we so often fail, while those more callous and calculating so often succeed.
Autism | seeing a world other people don’t see | autism in my novel The Birdcatcher
But those Toronto writers weren't finished with just setting me straight about dreams. They also informed me that my novel doesn't work because Chris Stone himself is unreal.
Rescuing Reality | The Stupidity Paradox | why some of us struggle in the workplaces of today
........when you consider that we live in a gigantic house-of-cards world, threatening to collapse..... don't we need more intelligence, not less?
Alan Conrad 