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Page Plucker: Short Stories

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These are reviews of individual short stories, many of them read as part of the Short Stories on Wednesdays meme over at Bread Crumb Reads. For reviews of short story collections, please see the main Reviews by Author. Bradbury, Ray - And The Rock Cried Out. Bradbury, Ray - The Scythe. Chekhov, Anton - The Grasshopper. Chopin, Kate - Lilacs. Dahl, Roald - An African Story. Dahl, Roald - Only This. Dickens, Charles - The Baron of Grogzwig. Doyle, Roddy - Blood. Harris, Joanne - Wildfire in Manhattan.

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Page Plucker: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

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Monday, 6 May 2013. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. Jeanette Winterson has long been on my mental list of authors I’ve been meaning to get round to, and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Seemed like an obvious place to start. It’s a semi-autobiographical novel about a young girl coming of age in the North of England, and it’s probably her most famous and critically acclaimed work. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Children of th...

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Page Plucker: Completed Challenges

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Back to the Classics Challenge. 1st January - 31st December 2012. Finished 23rd December 2012. 1st January - 31st December 2012. Finished 17th December 2012. Mixing it Up Challenge. 1st January - 31st December 2012. Finished 13th December 2012. 1st January - 31st December 2012. Finished 15th November 2012. Dewey Decimel Reading Challenge. 1st January - 31st December 2012. Finished 5th November 2012. R I P (Readers Imbibing Peril) VII. 1st September - 31st October 2012. 7 Books and 2 Short Stories Read.

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Page Plucker: Bout of Books - The Updates

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Tuesday, 14 May 2013. Bout of Books - The Updates. So this is how it works, right? I post about each day's progress after the day is over? Well, it's now 10.30am on Tuesday and I've only just woken up (oh, how I love. Having time off work), and so now seems like a good time to tell you about yesterday, and also set up the post for future updates through the week. I got off to a great start and read one whole book. It was quite a chunky book too. To be honest, Ferney. Books read from - Ferney. In the morn...

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Page Plucker: Final Demand by Deborah Moggach

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Sunday, 26 May 2013. Final Demand by Deborah Moggach. This book was a Christmas gift from my stepfather, who became mildly obsessed after watching the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel movie and went on a mission to read everything Deborah Moggach had written. Of all the books he tried, this sounded the most intriguing and it was nice to finally get around to reading it. There's a touch of the Muriel Spark about Final Demand. Or The Public Image. Perhaps it's simply the way the author manages to say so much in ...

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Page Plucker: Tideline by Penny Hancock

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Friday, 24 May 2013. Tideline by Penny Hancock. Was included in the Richard and Judy list last year, and I bought it in a fit of enthusiasm as soon as I heard the premise. Like so many of these “must have” purchases, as soon as I got it home somehow other books seemed to take priority and this has sat forlornly on my shelf ever since. It's a shame I waited so long, because Tideline. Was a suspenseful and creepy book that well deserved all its rave reviews. I did have one gripe with Tideline,. The Picture...

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Page Plucker: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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Wednesday, 15 May 2013. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Part of the reason I wanted to read this is because I've got Will Self's novel, Dorian. Sitting on my shelf and I thought I might get more out of it if I'd read this first. Of course, most of us know the story, but with something this well known it can often be surprising to read the original novel and see how it can differ from your preconceptions. Were read out at Wilde's trial as evidence against him. And found it a little slow moving ...

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Page Plucker: Ferney by James Long

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Wednesday, 22 May 2013. Ferney by James Long. You might think that time travel romances aren't normally my kind of thing, but there was something about the description of Ferney. That made it sneak into my basket a while ago. The time travel romance tag turned out to be woefully inadequate for this complex and nuanced novel, which I loved for its warm characters and highly original plot, quite unlike anything I'd ever read before. The relationships between the characters in Ferney. Has recently been publ...

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Page Plucker: Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence

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Sunday, 12 May 2013. Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence. Back in the 1980s, in the days before YA was a thing, there was a spate of rather scary, very British nuclear dystopias aimed at a teenage audience. Chief among these were Robert Swindells' Brother in the Land,. And this terrifying book by Louise Lawrence. 1 August 2013 at 10:00. I have pretty much been a loyal buyer of honest diapers from day one, but have tried expensive diapers on occasion, only to come back to these. They are the bette...