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Gimbling in the Wabe – Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest

Published on : 29 April, 201629 April, 2016 Published by : Sharon Browning

I suppose it could be portrayed as being somewhat spurious – a pale, doughy woman on the far side of middle age sitting in her living room, tears occasionally spilling down her face, listening to Prince’s “Purple Rain” through the earbuds plugged in to her laptop so she could turn […]

LitStack Review: Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

Published on : 9 September, 20138 September, 2013 Published by : Sharon Browning

Some Kind of Fairy Tale Graham Joyce Doubleday/Anchor Publication Date: July 2, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-385-53578-6 Yet another World Fantasy Awards – Best Novel nominee, and yet another wonderful story. Many, many folk tales, fireside stories, elder manuscripts and vestiges of ancient lore tell of the abduction of (usually) fair young […]

On this day, September 29, in 1547, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (universally known simply as “Cervantes”) was born in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. He wrote a number of plays, poems and novels, but it is his master work, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha – better known simply as Don Quixote – for which he has achieved immortality. Unable to support himself through his writing, at various times in his life he joined the army (where he was captured by corsairs, and spent five years in slavery before being ransomed), was a purchasing agent, an accountant and a tax collector. He died at age 68 of diabetes and liver disease.

On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.

Gimbling in the Wabe – Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest

LitStack Review: Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

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