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On Short Stories

I have a funny relationship with short stories, as I must have mentioned before now. One of my problems is that I’m never quite sure how to read collections, by which I mean, should I read them slowly, one story at a time, and leave a respectful amount of time between each in which to [...]

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March 9, 2010 by Kirsty in fiction, personal, short stories
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My Life in a Book Meme

This meme was started by the lovely Simon at Stuck in a Book a few days ago, and I’ve decided to pilfer it. The idea is to choose ten random books from your shelves and post what they say about you. So, this is a truly random selection (eyes closed and grab) of the library [...]

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January 21, 2010 by Kirsty in auto/biography, blogs, feminism, fiction, memes, personal, publishing, short stories, victorian history, victorian literature
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Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914 – ed. Angelique Richardson (2005)

Vanora herself was simply radiant… In figure she was robust, erect, pliant, firmly knit. Though her movements were so swift, there was nothing restless about her. A ground-tone of repose sounded up through the surface scintillations. She was vital, not galvanic. That was the revealing word: vital. In the human colour-spectrum, she took the place [...]

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May 7, 2009 by Kirsty in book thoughts, feminism, fiction, short stories, victorian literature
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Ali Smith up for Edge Hill Short Story Prize

I see on Mark Thwaite’s Book Depository blog that the shortlist for the 2009 Edge Hill Short Story Prize has been announced:
The shortlist for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize has been announced. The annual prize, which was launched by Edge Hill University three years ago, is the only competition in the UK for the [...]

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May 6, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction, prizes, short stories
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Recent Aquisitions

I have no idea when I’m going to get round to all of these, but some lovely new books have just landed on my bookshelves. I keep threatening to have another charity shop purge, but somehow I just can’t bring myself to.
First off, I had a lovely surprise package of review copies from Canongate (thank [...]

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May 1, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction, short stories
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Ali Smith Review

Would just like to point you all in the direction of The F Word, where I have a review of the new Ali Smith short story collection The First Person and Other Stories up and open to general consumption.
Ali Smith is “one of the most inventive writers we have. She jumps from high places and [...]

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February 11, 2009 by Kirsty in book thoughts, fiction, short stories
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Excuses, excuses.

I have been a bit rubbish at blogging recently, for which I apologise. I have been doing the following:

The Secret Project, which is going well, but about which I can’t say anything more at the moment (I’m such a tease)
Reading for class – I have discovered an all-pervading love of Ibsen. Who knew? Now re-reading [...]

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February 4, 2009 by Kirsty in blogs, fiction, short stories, victorian literature
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I ♥ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I recently treated myself to a copy of the stunning new Virago Modern Classics edition of The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. I was already a firm fan of her writing, and as regular readers will know, I absolutely adore her most famous story The Yellow Wallpaper.
There are quite a few [...]

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January 27, 2009 by Kirsty in book thoughts, feminism, fiction, short stories, victorian literature
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The Loudest Sound and Nothing – Clare Wigfall (2007)

I’m still re-posting old pieces from the original blog in a bid to preserve my favourites before it all disappears into the interweb ether. Apologies for slight lack of original posts recently, but I have been suffering with the lurgy and a chest infection, and generally feeling rubbish. Normal service should resume shortly!
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Somewhere in the [...]

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January 20, 2009 by Kirsty in book thoughts, fiction, short stories
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Current Reading

Now that I have finally finished The Essay, I can get back to some kind of normality – and start blogging properly again. I really don’t want to read anything else about Victorian clergymen for a long time.
Of my proposed Christmas reading I have actually only managed two of the four books: The Suspicions of [...]

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January 4, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction, history, short stories, victorian literature
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