Daily Bookshot: How’d That Happen?!?

How’d That Happen?!?, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

I’m sure most of you are aware of my sudden and absolute attraction to Japanese author Shusaku Endo of late. It came while reading Silence (Peter Owen) – you can read my afterthoughts HERE ), and it immediately sent me on a mission to add a few [...]

Daily Bookshot: The Weekend’s 2nd-Hand Haul

..plus the two ‘literary A-Listers’ I wake up next to each morning

Daily Bookshot: Endo on Character Creation

Endo on Character Creation, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

Ok, so I know you guys are probably sick of me going on and on about Shusaku Endo lately, but please let me share this with you, and I’m sure you won’t regret it.
I’ve already recently spoken about adding Endo’s The Final Martyrs short story collection to [...]

Reading Journal: Monday 20th July 2009

Yay my reading journal has returned, and before I get back on to a daily footing with the recording of my reading, I should give a brief rundown on the reading I’ve been doing while the journal has been ‘off-air’.
So over the past few days I finished Shusaku Endo’s Silence (Peter Owen) towards [...]

Afterthoughts: Silence by Shusaku Endo

The final page is sadly turned on Endo’s Silence, so it’s time to offer up my afterthoughts on what not unexpectedly turned out to be one incredible novel.

Daily Bookshot: Watching Endo!

My second Endo title in two days arrives

Daily Bookshot: The Shusaku Shelf Grows

Hallelujah! Praise be to the Book Gods! Another Shusaku Endo title is added to my bookshelves

Reading Journal: Mon 6th July 2009

07:00 – Onwards with Ox-Tales: Earth (Profile Books), and today it was a story from Marina Lewycka which is endearingly titled The Importance of Warm Feet. The story turned out to be rather endearing too, with its subject not surprisingly centering around the theme of keeping the tootsies toasted.
21:00 – Way too [...]

Reading Journal: Sun 5th July 2009

08:00 – Managed to tick off two stories from Ox-Tales: Earth (Profile Books) this morning. Not because I was in a voracious reading mood, but rather because one of the two stories was really short. The first was Lucky We Live Now by Kate Atkinson. Set in Edinburgh (hooray!) one thing that can certainly [...]

Reading Journal: Sat 4th July 2009

07:30 – Started the day off with another short from Ox-Tales: Earth (Profile Books), and this story, Boys in Cars by Marti Leimbach, is another absolute cracker. The story is based on a single mother’s relationship with her autistic child, and it’s a story which turns out to be both tender and endearing. Sob..sob..and [...]

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