Archive for 'Literature' Category
Vladimir’s burden
Vladimir’s mind was captivated by the events of the last few days, they were not happy thoughts, not the kind that make even the most trivial tasks in life a pleasure to do, not at all, he found his wife giving a blow job to another man in his own bed. His boss was also [...]
And so the sun fought
Salomėja’s skin was uncovered when the ultraviolet rays had penetrated her upper body without restraint. A deep red pigment had replaced the supple white skin she had grown up with since she entered the world. The dazzling sun took a turn she had not anticipated many hours ago when she woke up after a an [...]
Posters of the 1989 Velvet Revolution
November and December 1989 saw student protest’s in Prague and other cities that led to the Sametová revoluce ( velvet revolution) that saw the end of communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Last year the release of a bi-lingual (Czech and English) book with some of the posters that were seen all over the cities accompanied by [...]
Tired out fiction
There is nothing more boring than having to read the same characters and similar story lines from a authors 5th book. Its like a 25 year old television soap . In the guardian Toby Lichtig wrote I was considering this recently when I picked up the new John Irving novel, Last Night in Twisted River. [...]
Poetry from a school friend
It is quite sad how friends that you knew from high school just float away. I have always been curious to find out what happened to them. Did they get married, immigrate to a far away land, have children ? I have managed to track down a few recently, that I am pleased to know [...]
Book obsessions
I am literally swamped in my room with books, it is slowly becoming a problem. One sensible solution would be to borrow from the library. I have on numerable occasions done just that. Why I don’t do that all the time fizzles down to a book fetish. Books to me are just as about the [...]
collaborate storytelling
A new project has started where users can write stories and even change existing stories for instance a alternative ending. I use to write short stories myself, unfortunately I have lost the notepad that was used. To join in the creativity or simply read them the site can be at http://storyevertelling.com/
Olga Tokarczuk
After several weeks delay I have finally finished reading House of Day, House of night. A story set in fictional small town Nowa Ruda in Silesia, Poland. Marta is the main character that is a neighbour and a wig maker that has many stories to tell. They make recipes made of mushrooms that they pick [...]
Books I have read
In my short life, reading has been one of my hobbies that has taken up quite a bit of time. Books have inspired me , given me hope when I have been down. Entertained me when I have been bored. They have on occasion shocked me too. All that reading has been time well spent. [...]
Andrzej Stasiuk
Today I finished reading Dziewięć translated into english as nine. Stasiuk describes the underbelly of post-communist Warsaw. Pawel the main charactor , a young business man wakes up to find his home destroyed by criminals. He goes to his friends in search of work that involves around a drug dealer and a addict. The novel [...]