Review: Ned, Barnardo Boy

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

There are only a select subset of books that I reread. Most are barely worth the time to finish them, but there are a few that bear rereading again and again. Dorothy Sayers is like that. Although she writes mysteries, her prose is so enjoyable that you don’t even care that you know “who dunnit.”…
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The Way to Play It

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

As one commentator said it, there’s honesty, and then there’s Brian Davis.  Last Sunday at the PGA Verizon Heritage golf tournament, Davis was in the running for his first PGA championship when his ball rolled off the 18th green.  PGATOUR.com reported live: Wow. What a strange ending. Brian Davis called on himself what he thought…
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