Reading Journal: Friday 10th September 2010

You know, even though I’ve dived back into full-time lit blogging (and I’ve never been happier having done so) I thought about leaving out this online reading journal feature until I could come up with the ultimate format for it; a format which would be introduced in RobAroundBooks v2.0. Fact is I’ve been trying [...]

Reading Journal: Tuesday 1st June 2010

And so fellow reader we hit June, beautiful June. It’s the beginning of a new month and to some small degree the door has started opening for summer. We’re not quite there yet of course, but Tuesday’s always feel like a summer’s day to me because I get to bask in the glory of [...]

Reading Journal: Monday 31st May 2010

Well folks it’s been a few days since I updated my reading journal I know. The thing is midweek last week, I just felt that low, depressing what’s the point mood coming on and I had to nip it in the bud and take a bit of a break away from reading. And so [...]

Reading Journal: Tuesday 25th May 2010

While I’m managing perfectly to keep up with my shorter reading assignments, I’m having a real hard time tackling my bigger ones. Again I was determined to dive back into my Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist reading, and to make a start on Hamsun’s Shallow Soil (forethoughts) for my Totally Knut reading project, but [...]

Reading Journal: Monday 24th May 2010

Well dear reader I really must apologise for my tail off in posts towards the latter half of last week. With my stomach giving me some serious digestive problems I really lost most of my motivation for any kind of focused reading. It happens right? Well thankfully things have improved and I’m back into [...]

Reading Journal: Monday 17th May 2010

The start of a new week and I was surprisingly upbeat about my reading after having a weekend of doubt and doldrums. I guess I was still disappointed at not having met my challenge to read the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist before the winner was announced. But I’m over that now. It’s not [...]

Reading Journal: Remainder of Week 19, 2010

With no reading journal entry posted since Tuesday, you’d certainly be forgiven fellow reader for thinking that my reading had ground to a halt over these past few days. The fact is however, that my reading has continued unabated and it is only a lack of blogging time that has stopped me from [...]

Reading Journal: Monday 10th May 2010

Monday may be one of the most depressing days of the week for a lot of people but for me it means Maupassant and I couldn’t be happier. Today it was the turn of a couple of tales which are, in a tenuous way, linked by the theme of babies. The first Mademoiselle Pearl [...]

Reading Journal: Thursday 6th May 2010

Before I go on to give you a rundown on my reading for Thursday 6th May, I should declare that I’m writing this on Saturday 8th, a full day later than when I should be writing it up, and indeed posting it. I’m sure you know what it like though fellow reader, all the [...]

Reading Journal: Wednesday 5th May 2010

Would it shock you to know that it’s been almost eight months since I last read an Edgar Allan Poe story for my iPoe reading challenge? Well, desperate to make amends for this shortfall, I set about reserving Wednesday as my Poe day, when I tick off at least one story from the master [...]

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