Two Fifty-Two Stories ‘helpings’ to tell you about – My lack of ‘Book Bite’ posts over the past few days has meant I missed out on highlighting the release of last week’s short story offering from Harper’s Fifty-Two Stories, which is a real shame because the story – A Cloud of Facts by Margot Livesey, is a rare one for me because it’s set in a city very close to my heart (and my location), Edinburgh. I’ve actually read the story already, and I rather enjoyed it. I’ll post my afterthoughts as soon as I can, but take this as a recommendation to go and read it.
Getting right back on track, and with a new week comes a new story from the Harper Perennial team, and this latest one – Looking For the Elephant, comes from Jo Kyung Ran, winner of Korea’s prestigious Dong-in Prize. A quick glance suggests to me that the story’s very cultural in nature (as I would have expected), so I’ve a feeling I’m going to love it.
Wiping with words – If I lived in Japan and could read Japanese (which I probably would be able to do if I lived in Japan 
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Now, I could go on and say something about being in the right place to read a horror story, but having subjected you to such a graphic title already, I think I’ll just leave it at that. [via Yahoo News]
Bookgeeks power up Bookhugger sister site – One UK lit blog making a real impression out there in Internet land is Bookgeeks, and they’ve just raised the bar for all other lit bloggers to aspire to, with the launch today of Bookhugger, a new website which focuses solely on bringing the latest news and content from a number of UK book publishers.
Although it’s early days and the Bookhugger site is low on content, they promise big things, and if design and layout of the Bookhugger site is anything to go by then first impressions are very favourable. Definitely a bookish ‘newcomer’ well worth keeping a close eye on!
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