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The Truth About Lies

The Truth About Lies

http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/

Scottish author Jim Murdoch discusses writing, his own and other authors, and muses at length about his fascination with the perversity of language. Veering from the nostalgic to the acerbic his blog will amuse anyone with a love of language.

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  • English in its underwear

    Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 06:24 in glasgow, scottish, glaswegian, doric, lallans

    Scots is English in its underwear. It's difficult to be pretentious in a language like that. - William McIlvanney McIlvanney has pointed out more than once that the lower down the social ladder you get, the more metaphorical, the ...

  • The Wrong Miracle

    Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 20:15 in poetry, book review, salt, liz gallagher

    Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar – Pablo Picasso This is book about ordinary things, getting you hair done, having breakfast, going to church and eating gobstoppers. It's ab...

  • The Search

    Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 18:05 in book review, Holocaust, striped pyjamas, maureen myant

      Before I get down to the nitty-gritty of reviewing this novel we need a short history lesson: Lidice (German: Liditz) is a village in the Czech Republic just north-west of Prague. It is built on the site of a previous village of the same...

  • Beckett the tinkerer (part one)

    Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 05:54 in Director, beckett, what where

    We're not entirely restrictive. We're not . . . conservers of museum pieces. Not at all.  — Edward Beckett There is a school of thought (passionately held by many) that holds that it is tantamount to sacrilege to tamper with ...

  • Travels in the Scriptorium Part II

    Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 18:05 in book review, auster

    I have spent my life in conversations with people I have never seen, with people I will never know and I hope to continue until the day I stop breathing. - from Paul Auster's acceptance speech for the Prince of Asturias Prize for Letters I...

  • Travels in the Scriptorium Part I

    Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 18:03 in book review, auster

    I knew very little about Paul Auster when I bought this book. I knew the name. I knew of him and that he was a respected, probably American, author. It was certainly why I picked the book up although I suspect its size – it's only 130 pages long â...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 7 comments.

acgaughen

5 stars AC Gaughen

Great Blog! I'm in St Andrews for a while; there's no better place to be a writer than Scotland.

Posted: October 28th, 2008 | More Reviews From acgaughen | Report This Comment

robertstevenson

5 stars Dr. Rob

I love your writing. Glasgow seems wonderful. I lived in Nottingham but never made it to Scotland. I look forward to your next post.

Posted: May 19th, 2008 | More Reviews From robertstevenson | Report This Comment

Felixmartin

5 stars Ken Armstrong

Up there with the very best writing blogs I have found.

Jim's posts are highly informed, intelligent and humane.

Posted: April 20th, 2008 | More Reviews From Felixmartin | Report This Comment

kebelle

5 stars kebelle

You have a very helpful site for a newbie in the writing world like me.

Posted: February 22nd, 2008 | More Reviews From kebelle | Report This Comment

jimmurdoch

5 stars Jim Murdoch

Hey, looks like there's two of us - Scottish blood from Northern Ireland! Interesting Blog. I'll be taking a closer look at your work. My wife and I will publishing our first book this year, very exciting. Stop by my Blog and let me know what you think. I'll be adding to your blog to my Blogroll.
Jim

Posted: January 24th, 2008 | More Reviews From jimmurdoch | Report This Comment

BTCassidy

5 stars BT Cassidy

Jim’s posts are insightful and helpful with a courteous tip of the hat toward his own preferences. He presents his view, acknowledged as such while remaining objective and informative- If you write, and want to learn more about writing check this blog regularly.

Posted: January 23rd, 2008 | More Reviews From BTCassidy | Report This Comment

DiamondVVV1

5 stars DiamondVVV1

Great blog!

Posted: November 24th, 2007 | More Reviews From DiamondVVV1 | Report This Comment

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