Reading Journal: Tuesday 21st July 2009

07:00 – A serving of Ox-Tales: Air (Profile Books) with breakfast, and the story next in line from the collection was The Desert Torso by Kamila Shamsie. The story revolves around a courier’s transporting of an ancient and valuable stone torso across the desert. Reflective and pious The Desert Torso turned out to be [...]

‘Book Bites’ for Monday 20th July 2009

Legless goat back on the menu at Fifty-Two Stories. Jacket Copy’s ‘61 essential postmodern reads’. ITN launch YouTube book channel

‘Book Bites’ for Monday 29th June 2009

Jennifer Haigh short on Fifty Two Stories. Euro Crime future release list. Philip O’Ceallaigh talks short

Reading Journal: Sun 28th June 2009

Last night – Alex Burrett, if you’re reading this I just want to tell you that you’re a genius, and I love your imagination! Read Immortal from his My Goat Ate Its Own Legs collection (Burning House) and I loved it. Reading as a kind of modern legend, Immortal tells the story of a [...]

‘Shot of Short’ #41: Immortal by Alex Burrett

Title: Immortal by Alex Burrett
Date Read: 28 June 2009
Available Online?: YES (as one of the stories posted by Harper Perennial on their website Fifty-Two Stories, which promises a new (or classic) short story from their collection, posted every week throughout 2009). For this review I read the story in the UK edition of Burrett’s [...]

Reading Journal: Sat 27th June 2009

Last night – Got around to reading that 1907 New York Times article on de Maupassant that I was talking about earlier in the day, the one that centred around Edouard de Maynial’s 1906 biography La vie et l’oeuvre de Guy de Maupassant [downloadable pdf available HERE]. Aside from a couple of paragraphs being virtually [...]

‘Book Bites’ for Monday 22nd June 2009

Fifty-Two Stories serves up helping of legless goat. Penguin Group US launch new multimedia site.

Daily Bookshot: Who’s been eating my book?

Who’s been eating my book?, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

I tweeted about my discovery of it a couple of days ago, and after promptly ordering it, my copy of My Goat Ate Its Own Legs by Alex Burrett arrived today. Don’t you just love the ‘little’ details like this? ) Also pictured is a [...]