Every Friday, Swimming in the Nile will bring you five links which will serve to titillate, educate or inspire. A bit like Capt. Sullenberger, you know. Hopefully these links will also be talking points, of which you and your friends, online and offline, can discuss. So, without further ado, I bring you the latest Friday [...]
If you imagine all of the punctuation in the English language as a large dysfunctional family, there is one member who is hardly ever invited to Sunday lunch. He might be a distant relative. He might be a bit of a snob and a bit of a know-it-all. He might have even thrown up all [...]
Every Friday, Swimming in the Nile will bring you five links which will serve to titillate, educate or inspire. Or like the spider link below, have no significance whatsoever. Hopefully these links will also be talking points, of which you and your friends, online and offline, can discuss. So, without further ado, I bring you [...]
In my first blog entry, I introduced myself and spoke briefly about my insatiable appetite for good literature. That’s all well and good, but now I’d like to take a moment of your time to express two of my pet peeves. Firstly, I don’t like libraries. Sound strange right? But before you go and leave [...]
This week, the title By the Bedside is a bit of a misnomer. I moved house this weekend and am yet to put in furniture, so my earthly possessions lay in a heap on the floor. But I can assure you that perched precariously at the pinnacle of the pile is a book perhaps worthy [...]
Every Friday, Swimming in the Nile will bring you five links which will serve to titillate, educate or inspire. Hopefully these links will also be talking points, of which you and your friends, online and offline, can discuss. So, without further ado, I bring you the first Friday Link Roundup! Christopher Gortner writes about the [...]
The folks over at Penguin have just posted an interesting interview with Jeremy Clarkson, whom you may otherwise know as one of the hosts of TV’s Top Gear. You know, the loud one? As a long time fan of Clarkson, I was more than eager to take a look. What I found was surprising to [...]
As part of a new series of articles on Swimming in the Nile, I bring you By the Bedside. Each week, I will discuss a book I’ve recently finished reading. In this way, I hope to strike up some interesting debate with those that have read it as well, or maybe make a recommendation or [...]
I believe that it was Cornelia Funke who once said; ‘Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few chewed and digested thoroughly’. I’ve never eaten a book, so I can’t say for sure whether Cornelia is dispensing good advice. But I can say, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that reading a [...]