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Thoughts and reflections on works of fiction and literature. Pondering of life through pictures and words. Babbling about gay rights. Travelogues and anecdotes.

Book Reviews

  • [1] Annie Proulx: Brokeback Mountain
  • [2] Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha
  • [3] Yu Hua: To Live
  • [4] Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty
  • [5] Colm Toibin: The Master
  • [6] Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind
  • [7] William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience
  • [8] Charles Higham: The Civilization of Angkor
  • [9] Graham Greene: A Burnt-Out Case
  • [10] Dai Sijie: Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch
  • [11] Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming-Pool Library
  • [12] Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
  • [13] Colm Toibin: The Blackwater Lightship
  • [14] Alan Hollinghurst: The Folding Star
  • [15] Ross King: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
  • [16] Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
  • [17] Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
  • [18] Colm Toibin: The Story of the Night
  • [19] John Banville: Shroud
  • [20] Leo Tolstoy: Resurrection
  • [21] Peter Hessler: River Town, Two Years on the Yangtze
  • [22] Ian McEwan: The Atonement
  • [24] Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera
  • [25] Ignacio Padilla: Shadow without a Name
  • [26] Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
  • [27] Richard Russo: Straight Man
  • [28] Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
  • [29] Alan Hollinghurst: The Spell
  • [30] Hermann Broch: The Death of Virgil
  • [31] James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room
  • [32] Ken Kesey: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • [33] Xingjian Gao: One Man's Bible
  • [34] C. Jay Cox: Latter Days
  • [35] Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird
  • [36] William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew
  • [37] Daniel A. Helminiak: What The Bible Really Says about Homosexuality
  • [38] James Baldwin: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
  • [39] Kenji Yoshino: Covering - The Hidden Assault of Civil Rights
  • [40] Italo Calvino: If, On a Winter's Night A Traveler
  • [41] Arthur Phillips: The Egyptologist
  • [42] George Orwell: 1984
  • [43] Michael Warner: The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and Ethics of Queer Life
  • [44] Andrew Sullivan: Virtually Normal
  • [45] Henry James: The Wings of the Dove
  • [46] Jose Saramago: Blindness
  • [47] Umberto Eco: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
  • [48] Dan Brown: Da Vinci Code
  • [49] Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
  • [50] Ken Follett: The Pillars of Earth
  • [51] Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
  • [52] Michael Thomas Ford: Alec Baldwin Doesn't Like Me
  • [53] Jonathan Franzen: How To Be Alone
  • [54] Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude
  • [55] Matthew Pearl: The Dante Club
  • [56] Zadie Smith: White Teeth
  • [57] Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Double
  • [58] Jose Saramago: The Double
  • [59] Andrew Holleran: Dancer from the Dance
  • [60] Heinrich von Kleist: The Marquise of O & Other Stories
  • [61] Andrew Holleran: In September, the Light Changes
  • [62] Tom Perrotta: Little Children
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    Current Reading

    January 01, 2007

     

    Moving to WordPress?

    Some fellow bloggers have moved to WordPress for a refreshing new look, but on top of that, to kiss Blogger glitches goodbye. I'm weighing my options here and consider moving to either WordPress or TypePad, which charges at least $4.95 for a basic membership. Things to consider:

    • import the entire content of my current blog to the new site
    • varieties of templates, as you can see, I prefer a 3-column format
    • comments moderation

    WordPress looks appealing since it allows user to categorize posts. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Also I've got to get on the header for the blog. So much to do and this is only the first day of new year!

    Permalink posted by mattviews at 4:00 PM

    6 Comments:

    Blogger Greg said...

    Let me know how the move goes should you decide to do it. I'm losing patience with blogger, as well.

    1/02/2007 10:29 AM  
    Blogger Joshua said...

    Wordpress is free & I love it!

    1/02/2007 7:00 PM  
    Blogger Joshua said...

    Oh, and Matt - DO NOT SWITCH TO BLOGGER BETA - if you think you may be going to another provider. It can't switch beta blogger, only regular blogger. Unfortunately I didn't know this - and had to manually transfer everything!

    1/02/2007 7:06 PM  
    Blogger matty said...

    Yeah, I thought wordpress was free now, too. ?????

    I hate the idea of changing but I think I read that I will need to because my current old blogger will be dying aways and it is not transferable to the silly new blogger.

    ...and, I can barely master old blogger.

    Right now I am just trying to figure out how I can save a copy of my blog as I've been keeping it since 12/02. Don't wanna lose it all! ...and as Joshua points out -- I can't and will never manually transer it over. ugh.

    Hey, happy new year!!!

    1/02/2007 8:37 PM  
    Blogger Moby said...

    Wordpress is a very good choice and best of all, it is 100% free. There is a build for multiple blogs as well.

    I've been using it for a full year now and I love it.

    1/02/2007 8:59 PM  
    Blogger wasim said...

    thanks its very useful

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