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:
  

 

#DealMeIn2017 challenge  60/52

1. Short Story – J. Updike You’ll never know, Dear, how much I love you – READ – REVIEW
2. Short Story – J. Updike The Alligators – READ  – REVIEW
3. Short Story – W. Trevor  The Piano Teacher’s Pupil – READ – REVIEW
4. Short Stories –  H. Ellison – Shatterday & Other Stories   READ  11/11 – REVIEW
5. Short Story –  H. Lawson The Union Buries Its Dead –  READ – REVIEW
6. Essay – Who Killed Tolstoy? – Elif Bautman – READ – REVIEW
   
7. 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

 

1. 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.”

 

1. 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….!”

 

1. 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.”

 

1. 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. “
  

 

1. Essay – Darwinism – Marilynne Summers Robinson – READ
   
2. Essay – A Cat’s Meow – Joseph Brodsky – READ
   
3. Essay – Of Our Spiritual Strivings – W.E.B. Du Bois – READ
   
4. Essay – Remapping history, Reclaming memory Wilson plays (J. H. Scott) – READ
   
5. Essay – How Technology Disrupted the Truth – K. Viner – READ – essay – READ
   
6. Essay – Michael Sweerts: Another Dimension  S. Schama (critic) – READ
   
7. Essay – Bleak House: Dead Mother’s Property (H. Schor) – READ