This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, look forward to Wyrd and Wonder 2024 starting next month and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
Fantasy Fiction
1944 CLUB: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Collaborative book blogging: my contribution to the 1944 Club.
Winding Up the Week #39
This week we appraise books read and reviewed, look forward to Nonfiction November and German Literature Month, discover some of the best writing about books on the blogosphere and highlight fascinating literary features from across the Net.
BOOK REVIEW: The Silence of the Girls
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration and one of our greatest contemporary writers on war comes a reimagining of the most famous conflict in literature – the legendary Trojan War.
THOUGHTS ON: The Little Prince
A moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language.
THOUGHTS ON: ‘A House of Pomegranates’
A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimsical short stories by Oscar Wilde.
THOUGHTS ON: Grimm’s Fairy Stories
Taken from the East European oral tradition, these stories were originally collated and published in Germany by the Brothers Grimm.