It is so easy to lie with numbers – or not exactly lie, but give an impression that serves one aim or another. It’s quite an eye-opener to the reader; even if some ways are universally known, there always seems to be yet another way of using numbers or statistics to bluff people. Because pattern […]
A bit too sweet, a bit too light at times, pure entertainment, I admit. I admit Miss Julia has some growing up to when getting in terms of the inheritance, in more ways than one, his two-timing husband left her with, but not quite sufficiently. And it has its curious old-fashioned moments, caused by the […]
This reader wondered a bit why would Jason, the narrator, wanted to look back and relive his months as a thirteen-year-old in a small village in the nineteen eighties. Especially with school and its bullies, his own family gradually breaking up, and stammering always somewhere near, almost having a life of its own. And […]