‘Book Bites’ for Monday 24th May 2010

Bakewell ‘bigs it up’ for Montaigne (in parts) – Although you’ve yet to see a review on RobAroundBooks of Sarah Bakewell’s awesomely stupendous (and lengthily titled) How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer (Chatto and Windus), you’ll have seen me wagging my tail aplenty, [...]

‘Book Bites’ for Tuesday 16th February 2010

Van Booy makes another appearance at Fifty-Two Stories – As I strive to catch up with them, the reading offerings keep on coming over at Fifty-Two Stories, Harper Perennial’s portal of free short stories. And the latest author to be served up is none other than old favourite Simon van Booy with French [...]

Reading Journal: Summary for remainder of Week 5 2010

I know it’s coming terribly late in the day (blame all of the upgrading I’ve been doing on my computer systems today), but I thought it would still be worthwhile just tying up a few loose ends with regards to my reading the end of last week. With blogging and research commitments I didn’t [...]

Shot of Short #59: Cicada Cadence, Katie Didn’t by Craig Davis

Title: Cicada Cadence, Katie Didn’t by Craig Davis
Date Read: 27 January 2010
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 2010).
Briefly: Two men in a bar reminiscence on their youth, sharing [...]

Shot of Short #58: Belinda by Amity Gaige

Title: Belinda by Amity Gaige
Date Read: 27 January 2010
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 2010).
Briefly: The story follows Karin as she progresses through a number of unsuccessful marriages. [...]

Reading Journal: Tuesday 26th January 2010

Yet another busy but interesting reading day at RobAround Manor. Tuesdays can only mean Chekhov around here, and taking another step towards completing my Checkin’ Off the Chekhov Shorts reading challenge. So I began the day with two Chekhovian short stories which were mildly linked (unintentionally) by the theme of acting. First off was [...]

‘Book Bites’ for Monday 25th January 2010

Fifty-Two Stories ‘break out’ a Kevin Sampsell short – Although I’ve still to catch up with the reading of them, it’s great to see that Harper Perennial are continuing their quest of dishing out quality FREE short stories every week on their Fifty-Two Stories website. This week they bring us Jailbreak by Kevin [...]

Good things don’t always come to an end

Returning briefly to that crazy time that is Christmas, and one of the best presents I could have received this year, and did, was finding out that one of my favourite short story portals, Fifty-Two Stories, was keeping its virutal doors open.
Originally launched by Harper Perennial on 1st January 2009 to coincide with their ‘Summer [...]

Shot of Short #56: The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather

Title: The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather
Date Read: 06 December 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).
Briefly: Presented in the first person, the narrator reminisces on a [...]

Shot of Short #55: 1647 Ocean Front Walk by Dan Fante

If you only read one short story this November…

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