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Lovely, @Madeleine

Currently reading Amerika by Frank Kafka

Finished The Rules of Time Travel by L A Birchon and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s self-published and only available on Amazon. Recommended

Yes, but he did write some short stories

As I understand it Solzhenitsyn wrote mostly about the Gulag system in Russia that he actually lived through at the time. Doesn’t make him a bad writer but it strikes me as a pretty depressing subject. Gogol, I’ve never read but have Dostoyevsky. Read a small bit of Chekhov and a little Pushkin. Also read one Lermontov. But that’s all

Just because the book won a prize doesn’t mean that you are obliged to like it, it simply won a prize. Reading is totally subjective, I have no idea how these prizes are judged but it’s how the book and it’s prose and story make you feel as a reader that’s important not the winning of a prize. And you’re allowed to disagree with those who judged the book prize-worthy, that’s your privilege as a reader 🙂

Absolutely marvellous!

After all that I decided to buy The Rules of Time Travel by L A Birchon for this category and am currently reading it.

Yes, the person who posted on the Sex Pistols hasn’t been back and I’m sure this one won’t be.

I think that was the point of the post, to start an argument. There was a similar one a while ago concerning the Sex Pustols

Currently reading The Blackbird Oracle, Deborah Harkness. Book 5 in the All Souls series.

Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King I’ve been thinking about buying this book for a while but was put off because it was short (127 pages, my copy) and at more than £10 it didn’t represent value for money, for me. I didn’t realise that it came with illustrations. I then found out that it was originally a limited edition and then I understood why it was difficult to find. It was when it was delivered that I realised that it had illustrations in it. I decided to buy it because it was written by Stephen King and was, as far as I know, his only werewolf story. The book is physically taller than I expected and I was pleasantly surprised by finding the illustrations, more so since they are hand drawn. The paper is good quality and there are a lot of very good illustrations, some of which are in colour. I prefer to use my own imagination but these illustrations did enhance the story. I bought it for the story and a cracker it is. In today’s day and age I’d hesitate to call it horror and I’ve always liked the fact that Stephen King doesn’t go into detailed blood thirsty descriptions (i.e. gore) when somebody is killed. The book is divided into chapters, despite being so short, and these comprise the months of the year. There are as many illustrations at the beginning as there is story and I have to admit to feeling a little conned. But the story eventually takes over and the revelation of who the werewolf actually is and how he is discovered came as a complete surprise to me - the story has a great ending! - and King’s writing is as good as he gets. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and would recommend it, even although I read it in one sitting.

Further to this, having a quick look I have : A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking, Swann’s Way Marcel Proust, The Oldest Living Vampire (spans thousands of years, apparently) Joseph Duncan, Time's Convert Deborah Harkness, A Yankee in the Court of King Arthur Mark Twain. So plenty to choose from, for me.

I read The Time Machine, H G Wells in January, in anticipation - I don't regret that it's a great book! I haven’t decided, yet, what else to read. Dallergut Dream Department Store, sounds good though so I'll have a look at that, and definitely would count as a read.

The Mayfly, L A Birchon. A short story about time travel. It was very good!

Currently reading Claude’s Confession by Èmile Zola

I’m in (as always)

Currently reading A Nervous Breakdown, a short story by Anton Chekhov

Clearly we need you 🙂

Oh CONGRATULATIONS! He’s gorgeous.

Currently reading The Peepshow; The Murders at 10 Rillington Place, Kate Summerscale. I have read her other books and enjoyed them, this one I"m not enjoying quite so much.

It’s here: All The Colours of the Dark

Thank you. It’s actually very easy. Instructions come in the kit and all the stitches are straight up and down. I can just about count to four (you count how many boxes in the canvas a stitch uses, printed on a diagram) which is how I got there.

The hanging cord was made with a lucet. It’s a tool for making cords: this is what mine looks like The rest I sewed myself from a kit that I got for my birthday