Finished Wuthering Heights. Deservedly a classic, and probably now in my all-time top ten.
Way back in the 1960s I was cycling down a country lane with some friends.Finally getting a little bit of a break from rushing around like a headless chicken
Why did it cross the road?Way back in the 1960s I was cycling down a country lane with some friends.
Suddenly a chicken dashed out of the hedge, it's head got through the spokes of my bikes back wheel and a split second later it was decapitated when it was flipped around to my forks.
Me and schoolboy chums pulled up and I was staring in dismay at the blood all over my bike, then a gasp of horror and we were furiously pedalling away as a totally headless chicken chased us down the lane.
We went round a corner and maybe another 100 yards before stopping again.... nobody would go back to look in case "zombie chicken" was waiting for us.
(Ages 8 and 9 ish)
Interesting. Do let us know what you find out!ALBERT EINSTEIN. 2020,Kathleen
Krull. Short biography.
Taking a break about half-way through Tim Powers's Declare, not from any fault of the book (which is brilliant) but from a sudden desire to have another go at Wuthering Heights, despite finding nothing but negative opinions about it recently and dropping it instantly when I tried it a few weeks ago. For some reason I got straight into it this time, and about a hundred pages in am hooked.
I've had that as an ebook for a couple of years now, but I've never got around to reading it, it's saved in my "Some Day" file.I am about to start Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction (2014) edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi. My copy is an "Advance Uncorrected Proof" that I bought at a library book sale.
DNF - crap - deletedJuice by Tim Winston. A post apocalyptic story.
So far it's very reminiscent of The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a man and a child making their way across a landscape of ash, it's even got the same lack of punctuation (speech marks etc)
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