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Monday, 23 January 2023

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

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Kids can be so cruel. In Bradbury's imagined vision of a newly colonized Venus, living on this planet is harsh and depressing. Surrounde...
Sunday, 22 January 2023

The Night by Ray Bradbury

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These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines Of sportive wood run wild: these pastoral farms, Green to the very door; and wreaths of sm...
Friday, 20 January 2023

No Particular Night or Morning by Ray Bradbury

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In space, no one can hear you scream... The infinite vastness of space is terrifying.  For all those brave astronauts exploring distant gala...
Thursday, 19 January 2023

Perchance to Dream by Ray Bradbury

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To be or not to be... Of course, any title with a direct reference to Shakespeare's Hamlet will automatically pique my interest.  Ray B...
Wednesday, 18 January 2023

The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

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Out of all the abandoned reading challenges on this blog, the Ray Bradbury Reading Project is the one that I am most excited to start up ag...
Tuesday, 17 January 2023

The Second Bakery Attack by Haruki Murakami

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Nothing quite like freshly baked bread. Card Drawn: Jack of Spades I have struggled to finish any of Haruki Murakami's novels and much p...
Monday, 16 January 2023

Marching Through Boston by John Updike

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"I have a dream..." It seems fitting to review "Marching Through Boston" by John Updike on Martin Luther King Day (Janua...
Wednesday, 11 January 2023

Something to Hitch Meat to by Nalo Hopkinson

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The Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the water spout... Card Drawn: 6 of Hearts  Nalo Hopkinson is a refreshing and unique voice in the "specu...
Saturday, 7 January 2023

Wife-Wooing by John Updike

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  As an extension of the DMI challenge, I plan on reading at least one short story a day for the entire year. Perhaps this undertaking is wa...