Wrap-Up Deal Me In 2017 Challenge
Challenge DEAL ME IN 2017
- Thank you Jay….for hosting at Bibliophilopolis
- I finished this challenge
- ….but keep reading short stories and essays!
- List is essays, short stories 2017:
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- Short Story – J. Updike You’ll never know, Dear, how much I love you – READ – REVIEW
- Short Story – J. Updike The Alligators – READ – REVIEW
- Short Story – W. Trevor The Piano Teacher’s Pupil – READ – REVIEW
- Short Stories – H. Ellison – Shatterday & Other Stories READ 11/11 – REVIEW
- Short Story – H. Lawson The Union Buries Its Dead – READ – REVIEW
- Essay – Who Killed Tolstoy? – Elif Bautman – READ – REVIEW
- Essays – E.B.White – REVIEW
Comparison 2 essays about Neil Gaiman’s writings:
- Essay – What Neil Gaiman Teaches Us About Survival – M. Miller – REVIEW
- Essay – Remembering the Dead – R Long – READ – REVIEW
- Short Story – J. Updike Pigeon Feathers – REVIEW
- The trauma of an adolescent crisis of faith is brilliantly described in this story.
- I laughed out loud…
- during the allusions to Updike’s mother Linda,
- to Updike’s his blustry but ineffectual father and
- dazed….Granmom with
- My favorite quote:
- “….her usual expression of bewilderment.
- Her irises were pale discs of crazed crystal.”
- Short Story – W. Trevor – Meeting At Middle Age – REVIEW
- My favorite quote: (pg 10)
- Mrs. da Tanka: “You are an occasional table. Or a coat-rack in a boarding house. Who shall mourn at your grave?
- Mr Mileson: ” You are a creature with your face and fingernails. Mutton dressed as lamb….!”
- Short Story – W. Trevor – Access to Children – REVIEW
- My favorite quote: (pg 29)
- Divorced man realizes what he has thrown away for a chance meeting with a woman in a train.
- “They drank (man and barmaid)…to the day that was to come…
- when the error he had mande would me wiped away.”
- Short Story – W. Trevor – The General’s Day – REVIEW
- Retired General Suffolk walks ‘through a land of morn’
- ….on an Irish Saturday morning.
- Tea with pie and later a few dubble gins with split tonic.
- The General swayed catching the bar to balance himself.
- My favorite quote: (pg 46)
- “Are you ill? …the General smiled…I’ve not been myself for many years.
- Today is just another day. “
- Essay – Darwinism – Marilynne Summers Robinson – READ
- Essay – A Cat’s Meow – Joseph Brodsky – READ
- Essay – Of Our Spiritual Strivings – W.E.B. Du Bois – READ
- Essay – Remapping history, Reclaming memory Wilson plays (J. H. Scott) – READ
- Essay – How Technology Disrupted the Truth – K. Viner – READ – essay – READ
- Essay – Michael Sweerts: Another Dimension S. Schama (critic) – READ
- Essay – Bleak House: Dead Mother’s Property (H. Schor) – READ