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location: dunedin
country: new zealand (aotearoa)
 

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Damien Wilkins' new book: Somebody Loves Us All

I haven’t read any of Wilkins’ other five novels, so with this one I came fresh to his style and viewpoint. It took me some pages to feel at home, but gradually his distinctive and detailed approach...

Started by mcrowl (617) in reading • 1 response • Last response by mcrowl (617) • 3 weeks ago
Tags: character, new zealand, novel, plot, wellington
Email Clutter

Does anyone else find it hard to keep track of their emails, whether at work or at home? I use Outlook at work, and put some stuff into folders, but even then there are still lots of emails that...

Started by mcrowl (617) • 3 responses • Last response by kent_help2smile (1859) • 1 month ago
Tags: email, clutter, emaill clutter, folders, gmail
Christian quotations

I like keeping a record of interesting quotes, and before the Internet was the big thing, I used to do this in old notebooks. When I ran a Christian bookshop, I would spend some time each day writing...

Started by mcrowl (617) in religion • 2 responses • Last response by mcrowl (617) • 1 month ago
Tags: quotes, bookshop, christian, existence, extracts
Original Sin - a cultural history

This is a fairly new book, by Alan Jacob, who's an author I really enjoy reading. His book on C S Lewis, The Narnian, was a delight, and restored some sanity to the way in which A N Wilson had...

Started by mcrowl (617) in reading • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: culture, history, jacobs, sin, story
I enjoy taking photos of murals

In our city we have a lot of murals scattered around, some of them have been commissioned, and some of them have just been painted by people who specialise in high-class graffiti. Some of them are of...

Started by mcrowl (617) • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: cartoon, dunedin, murals, new zealand, paint
Writing an e-book

I'm planning on producing an e-book related to my experiences late last year and early this year with prostate problems (not cancer, thank goodness). Does anyone have any good suggestions as to...

Started by mcrowl (617) in writing • 1 response • Last response by mcrowl (617) • 3 months ago
Tags: e-book, health, operation, prostate, publishing
First webinar experience

Today was the first time I've tried getting involved in a webinar, and it wasn't exactly a load of laughs. Downloading a program unexpectedly, looking for earphones, international phone calls, using...

Started by mcrowl (617) • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: phones, skype, technology, webinar
Week in December

I've just read Sebastian Faulks' A Week in December, in three great chunks, and all sorts of stuff from the story is still running around in my head. This is one of the best novels I've read in a...

Started by mcrowl (617) in reading • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: britain, faulks, islam, london, muslim
Sins of the Father

Earlier this year I read the New Zealand book, Sins of the Father: the long shadow of a religious cult, by Fleur Beale. It looks at the life of Neville Cooper, who began a kind of cult in the South...

Started by mcrowl (617) in reading • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: christianity, community, cult, family, father
Great thriller with a focus on Snakes!

I was given three thrillers to review a while ago; two of them seemed almost to be written to a formula: in the first chapter the murder victim dies, in the second a fairly unimportant character...

Started by mcrowl (617) in reading • 1 response • Last response by mcrowl (617) • 3 months ago
Tags: english, novels, religion, snakes, thriller