Stephen King

What I read in 2014: autobiography and other

Peter Kenny

December 19, 2014

Here are some more books I read in 2014. Autobiography 36 Views of Mount Fuji, Cathy N Davidson. My first book of the year, started on the plane back from Japan after a family holiday. Cathy N Davidson is an American Academic, and here describes three long stays in Japan and the cultural differences she found there.…

Autobiographies, Reading

36 Views of Mount Fuji, A death in the family, Cathy N. Davidson, Elie Wiesel, Experience, Fictions, I know why the caged bird sings, Jorge Luis Borges, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Mark Ellen, Martin Amis, Matt Groening, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Maya Angelou, Night, On Writing, Rock Stars Ate My Life, Stephen King, The Big Book of Hell, The World of Perception
What I read in 2014: novels

Peter Kenny

December 17, 2014

Those lists of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century are maddening and fun. I usually score between 70-80. So, to better this, I read some titles that regularly crop up. As many of the lists are American the books are too. This year I filled in a few of the gaps. The Shining, Stephen King. My…

Novels, Reading

A Confederacy of Dunces, Albert Camus, Cannery Row, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and HIs Years of Pilgrimage, Graeme Simsion, Hangover Square, Harper Lee, Haruki Murakami, John Kennedy O’Toole, John Steinbeck, Julian Barnes, Kasuo Ishiguro, Marcel Proust, Of Mice and Men, Patrick Hamilton, Paul Bowles, Stephen King, Swann’s Way, Takashi Hiraide, The Fall, The Guest Cat, The Outsider, The Remains of the Day, The Rosie Project, The Sense of an Ending, The Sheltering Sky, The Shining, The Sound and The Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird, William Faulkner
I’ll have a glass of what he’s having

Peter Kenny

March 1, 2014

Last night I watched a man drink a glass of nothing. I was at a one man show* and noticed the character pour himself an occasional drink. Eventually the liquid in the prop ran out, but the actor drank on. This is something routinely seen on stage, of course, but it got me thinking about…

Theatre

Alex Swift, Útgarða-Loki, Jack Torrance, Martin Bonger, Stephen King, The Shining, Thor

Stephen King

What I read in 2014: autobiography and other

What I read in 2014: novels

I’ll have a glass of what he’s having