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This fantastical little story was my first experience with Gaiman, and it wasn't a super good one for me. The story is about a middle aged man who, after attending a funeral, goes back to his childhood home to walk around and remember stuff. The rest of the book is him remembering some crazy things …
Continue reading "The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman"
I've fallen off blogging for too long, time to get back into it! While I've been away I have: Decided to take a break from writing my next novel to writing short stories. Threw away the short story I was writing and went back to my novel Enrolled in a technical writing certification course so …
I just finished this one, my first Tolstoy, chosen because it's the shortest novel he wrote. The story is about a nobleman in 1880, Nekhlyudov, who finds himself on a jury. One of the accused is a woman he knew in is past, and who he wronged when he was young. While watching the trial he …
turns out the links to the stories on my webpage were broken, who knows how long they've been that way! I wonder if they ever worked at all... :s Well, now they worked! So you can click the 'stories' link on the top bar of this page and check out some of my writing.
I've been listening to Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, my first Tolstoy, and am enjoying the lack of moral relativism. It's somehow refreshing to have a narrator with a clear opinion of what is evil and what is good, and a character who also knows this and is trying to be good. All the shades of …
Jonas David 