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Next Read

on January 8th, 2010 by acefspades

I have been reading  Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, yet my mind is already on my next read. Don’t get me wrong, Outliers is a stimulating book that states that no one succeeds purely on individual merit, but Ian McEwan has been calling for some time.
On Chesil Beach is a novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize. [...]

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Song of the Decade

on December 27th, 2009 by acefspades

Very much unlike my Book of the Decade, choosing my Song of the Decade was rather simple. There is one song that stands out from the rest, not only because of its music or lyrics but also because the impact it had on my life.
When I was a young man, well, younger still than I [...]

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Book of the Decade

on December 25th, 2009 by acefspades

Not what I expected, not at all. It is November, and there is a struggle as to which book I would pick to grant it this honour. The contest is between Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions and Jon McGregor’s So Many Ways to Begin. Two very different novels in so may ways, yet similar [...]

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