Katherine Mansfield

During Persephone Reading Week I started to read Katherine Mansfield’s Journal and realised that to truly appreciate it I needed to reread those Katherine Mansfield short stories I have loved and read those that are to me. Mansfield has been a popular blog topic in the last couple of weeks and I was inspired to [...]

The Thing Around Your Neck

“At night, something would wrap itself around your neck, something that very nearlychoked you before you fell asleep.” Last month I closely read and reviewed two of the short stories from the collection The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in anticipation of reading the others, which I now have. I enjoyed this [...]

"Snow, Glass, Apples"

Image courtesy of J Dillon @deviantART “Snow, Glass, Apples” by Neil Gaiman is the last story to appear in his first volume of short stories, Smoke and Mirrors, but can be read online here. Although I am a Neil Gaiman fan (relatively recently; since late 2006) and have read most of the stories that feature [...]

The Clothes They Stood Up In

After discovering JoAnn at Lakeside Musing’s blog and her mention of The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett, I requested a copy from my library (included in the volume Three Stories, along with two other novellas). Reading JoAnn’s teaser last Tuesday persuaded me to read it immediately upon collecting it on Thursday. I [...]

"The Lottery"

I am left feeling traumatised after reading Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” and it is a lottery I wouldn’t want to win. I knew there was a reason that I wanted to read Shirley Jackson and that I also wanted to know as little about her work as possible before reading it. She terrifies [...]

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