Bookfoolery

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of ...

I noticed I still have many Post-it notes in my copy of The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (<---my review) so this post is simply ...

On the steamer that took them up the Western River Walter read incessantly, but at meal-times he endeavored to make some kind of conversatio...