Posted in Giveaways, Sunday Salon, short story challenge on February 17, 2008 | 20 Comments »
How lovely of you to meet me here at First Cup, my favorite local coffee house. It seems we have the place to ourselves this morning - those sheets of freezing rain pouring from the sky must have kept everyone at home. Everyone except Amy, my favorite barista (who was thrilled to have The Sunday Salon gather here) - and you of [...]
Posted in short story challenge, top of the stack on January 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“The secret to a happy marriage,” my husband likes to tell me, “is good communication.” I was reminded of his admonition while reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, for many of these characters suffer from a grave inability to communicate.
In this collection of nine elegantly written short stories, I met people like Shoba and Shukumar, a young [...]
Posted in short story challenge on January 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »
as i gingerly wade into the waters of bookish blogs, tiptoeing about amongst the myriad bookworms out there in cyberspace, i am fascinated by the many readers who love a challenge. i’ve discovered announcements of seafaring challenges, russian writer challenges, jane austen challenges, notable book challenges, something called the “chunkster challege,” whereby all books must be at least 700 pages, [...]
