07:00 - A wonderful start to the day, courtesy of the next story in Ox-Tales: Water - Crossing the River by David Park. A fantastic story! Sticking wholly to the ‘script’ and producing a story which centres around the theme of water, Park … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Wednesday 12th August 2009
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07:00 - Grabbed the final Ox-Tales volume this morning, Ox-Tales: Water (Profile Books), and set about reading the first story - Rice Cakes and Starbucks by Esther Freud. Although an extract from a novel in progress (Lucky Break, published in 2010), … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Thursday 6th August 2009
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07:00 - I’m getting near the end of Ox-Tales: Fire (Profile Books) now so it’s close to appropriate (but not quite) that the story I read over breakfast this morning was Last by Ali Smith. This short by Smith certainly comes under the odd … [Read more...]
Afterthoughts: Ox-Tales Air
August 6, 2009 By 2 Comments
In a Nutshell: The second in a series of four, Ox-Tales: Air employs the same winning formula that was applied to the first volume, to produce a reading collection that’s original, varied and wholly entertaining. If you’re a regular follower … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Wednesday 5th August 2009
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07:00 - Another Ox-Tales: Fire (Profile Books) story over breakfast. Today was the turn of William Sutcliffe's excellent Sandcastles: A Negotiation, which tells the story of father's afternoon (actually only one hour), of looking after his two young … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Monday 3rd August 2009
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It's been a super busy non-bookish day for me today, but I wanted to start making sure that I didn't miss out on posting a daily 'reading journal' entry. Thankfully I did manage one short from Ox-Tales: Fire (Profile Books) on the train, Into the … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Sunday 2nd August 2009
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08:00 - The march through Ox-Tales: Fire (Profile Books) continues and I’m enjoying it thoroughly. This morning was the turn of the rather short, but very good The King Who Never Spoke by John Le Carre. As its title would suggest this story is all … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Saturday 1st August 2009
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07:00 - Another morning and another session with Ox-Tales: Fire (Profile Books). This morning was the turn of Sebastian Faulks with his story A Family Evening. Not a bad story, and Faulk’s rationale for creating it seem to centre on his need to … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Friday 31st July 2009
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07:30 - Keeping up my daily ‘ticking off’ of the Ox Tales four volume short story collection, I read the next story in line in Ox-Tales: Fire (Profile Books), written by Geoff Dyer, which isn’t a story at all but rather a nice little essay. … [Read more...]