Kempton Mooney Less Profundity, More Secundity

Here is a great page of alt key symbol shortcuts:
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/altchrc.html
To access, hold down the alt key and type the number code in the numerical keypad then lift the alt key.
Mostly a note for me because I can never remember how to generate the different little symbols

A little while ago I posted about having read J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting For the Barbarians. The books has stuck with me mainly for its minimalism and the depth of character it portrays. The magistrate depicted is real enough to hang some clothes on, but at the same time dramatic so that he is not [...]

Well, I said I was not going to read a new Le Carre for a while, and then I come across THE NIGHT MANAGER at my local bookstore and how can I pass it up. And it was good. Not TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY, but still good. No matter how much he stuck with the [...]

Having placed THE COMMITTEE for sale on the Kindle, I thought I would join the Kindle Boards and see what the discussion forum is like. I have made one introductory post so far which is here:
http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,71894.msg1159767.html#msg1159767
And you can find THE COMMITTEE on Amazon here:
THE COMMITTEE for the Kindle

Futzed around with some music this morning. Nothing special but just for the record.

I read THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE a little while ago and have been meaning to jot down my thoughts. I have always heard that it is a very powerful play, that audiences react to [...]

I recently read John Le Carre’s OUR KIND OF TRAITOR. As a big fan of his earlier espionage novels (TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY, THE HONORABLE SCHOOLBOY, and SMILEY’S PEOPLE in particular), I was a little disappointed with my first foray into his later work. The saving grace was the ending, which I won’t reveal, but [...]