The 15-minute book club
By David Wares
Sequestered in the dusty loft-space of the semi-abandoned great Winter Library, somewhere in the twilight wastes of the north, we spend our days filing old library cards, speaking in hushed tones and repairing and remaindering ancient texts, and we take an occasional 15-minute break to look at all things book-related.
The 15-minute book clubMar 22, 2023
"The majesty of heartache and betrayal."
Prefab Sprout’s classic 1985 album, Steve McQueen.
John Wick 4
Rules. Consequences.
On Love
There is a legend that after his crucifixion and resurrection, but before he ascended to Heaven, Jesus descended into Hell to speak to Judas, and he forgave him his treachery.
Salome
Salome was the step-daughter of King Herod of Judaea, and she had been instrumental in the execution of John the Baptist.
What follows is conjecture, but there was a Salome who became a follower of Jesus.
When Salome met Jesus, she renounced evil and became one of his followers. She was there at his crucifixion and she was there when his body was found to have disappeared from the tomb and an angel approached her and Mary, and Magdalene, with the good news of his resurrection.
These Hands
Pontius Pilate's account of the events leading to the crucifixion.
Why get involved? It was politics.
That was the crux of the matter.
Straight Life. The Life of Art Pepper
The Drugs Don't Work
Refuse: two short extracts from the Waste Land.
Refuse: two short extracts from the Waste Land.
Read by Trish O'Neill
A Nice Cup of Tea
The Ordinary Things That Sustain Us.
End of Year Round-Up
End of Year Round-Up and Plans for 2022
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol - How Charles Dickens re-invented Christmas.
I Am Legend
"The Dark Underbelly of Peak America"
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Never Love a Wild Thing
Bonjour Tristesse
Françoise Sagan’s breakthrough novel of possessive, destructive love, set in the post-war Riviera.
A Room of One's Own
An eloquent appeal to those not quite oppressed.
The Bass Saxophone.
The dreary sameness of oppression.
The Hobbit, & Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Tales of adventure and friendship.