Today's reading:

Short Story: Print the Legend by Daniel O'Mahony (from Faction Paradox: A Romance in Twelve Parts)

• Daniel is rightly hailed as a fabulous writer of Faction stories and this one provides an intriguing main character and fascinating alternative world. 

Poem: The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats

• Reads to me as the call/wish to go back ( Read more... )

Been a bit frazzled this week so only managed one day of the Bradbury Challenge

Short Story: The Story of the Peace by Ian Potter (from Faction Paradox: A Romance in Twelve Parts)

• I was quite tired when I read this so the factiony fractured timeline nature of the story set my head spinning slighty, but liked the humour running throughout.

Poem: To ( Read more... )

Yesterday's reading:

Short Story: The Golden Ingot by Fitz-James O'Brien (from The Diamond Lens)

• A tale of alchemy, despair and loving deceit.

Poem: Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith (from The Nation's Favourite Poems)

• A saying I'm familiar with and I think I knew it was from/linked to a poem, but not sure. I can certainly connect to the reading ( Read more... )

Today's reading:

Short Stories: The Wondersmith by Fitz-James O'Brien (from Obverse Quarterly: The Diamond Lens)

• A disturbing story of murderous manikins from the 1850/60s.

Poem: Battle by Ch'u Yuan (from 170 Chinese Poem)

• An early poem from 200/300 B.C. describing a battle and the fate of the men who fought becoming "Captains among the ghosts, heroes ( Read more... )

Today's reading:

Short Story: Second Snow by Joanthan Carroll (from The Woman Who Married a Cloud)

• Personally disturbing for me because of the subejct matter.

Poem: The Listeners by Walter De La Mare (from The Nation's Favourite Poems)

• Very atmospheric.

Essay: Reading C.S. Lewis's Narnia by Diana Wynne Jones (from Reflections)

• Interesting little piece on ( Read more... )

What I read yesterday:

Short Story: Bianca's Body by Teresa Milbrodt (from her Bearded Women Stories)

• About a woman who has an appendage, she calls Bianca, which is not quite a siamese twin as it is only a working uterus with small legs attached. The story is about her trying to conceive a baby and whether she should get Bianca removed in order to ( Read more... )

Due to be here, there and everywhere I took a week or so off from doing the Bradbury Challenge.

Here's what I read on Sunday 12th (or very early on Monday 13th!) August:

Short Story: The Rocket Men by Ray Bradbury (from R is for Rocket)

• Another tale looking at a man's desire to be among the stars versus his love of his family.

Poem: the one performed ( Read more... )

Yesterday's challenge also ended up being bedtime reading...

Yesterday's reading:

Short Story: Uncle James or the Purple Stranger by E. Nesbit (from Book of Dragons)

• Another delightful tale. Love the childlike logic in this that means animals are all the wrong size (Elephants tiny, Rabbits huge) and why they're like this.

Poem: Do not Stand at my Grave ( Read more... )

I got very distracted yesterday with the arrival of The Girly Comic Book 2, editing webpages, writing blogs/press releases and plugging it, so I didn't finish doing my Bradbury Challenge until late night.

Yesterday's reading:

Short Story:The Rocket by Ray Bradbury (from R is for Rocket)

• Another story examining a man's dreams vs destroying his family, ( Read more... )

Today's reading:

Short Story: Bill the Bloodhound by P.G. Wodehouse (from The Man With Two Left Feet & Other Essays)

• An entertaining and amusing story about an inept private detective and a touring musical production.

Poem:Two Legends by Ted Hughes (from Crow)

• Intrigued by the idea of this collection being inspired by myths and legends, but this first ( Read more... )