Pre-Holiday Slump..

For those of you who have been, like me, filling your days with things unrelated to blogging, I want to give an extra chance to appreciate the story that Charles has selected..and since this week is Thanksgiving, and I'll be busy all day Tuesday-Thursday making good things to eat and feeding the stoves, I decided to extend the reading through next week. Charles, I'm so sorry all this delay had to fall on your story.

If you haven't wandered over to Charles 'dropbox' yet to download the file, do so! The story is fascinating. I think we have a lot to discuss her (I'll post a Subject for discussion when Yarrow isn't being quite so distracting).

So let's get back on track folks!

Selection #4: From Charles

How about a selection from the beginning Jorge Luis Borges's Ficciones? In particular the Prologue to the first section and then the first story, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"?

If that sounds like a plan, let me know. Ficciones is available in stand-alone format or as part of a big collection of Borges's Collected Fictions that was released a few years ago. I can provide a PDF of scanned pages for the selection for anyone who needs it.

(Charles will be sending me a PDF, and I'll probably just send it out to everyon - except Charlie, whose e-mail I don't have yet - feel free to fix that, Charlie, by sending me a message at cyganeria.milika@gmail.com. )

The 4th Selection goes to...

Charles!

Sorry I'm late at sharing. Charles, I know we haven't really seen you in the discussions, so if you don't have the time just let me know!

For next week..

Christie, I drew your name to pick our next essay or short story. If you don’t have the time, or are just way too undecided, feel free to let me know and I’ll draw again, if not, send me an e-mail or comment here with your selection, and I’ll sort of ‘officially’ post it on Monday.

And, by the way, everyone, Christie has a writing prompt set up on her blog, this month's goes through the fourth Friday of October. I think anyone here would enjoy it, so skip on by and check it out.

Introductions

We’re starting this week everyone!

I’ll post the title and author of our first story tomorrow, but first I want to just say “hi” and make sure everything is working here.

The plan is, I get to pick the first story, and we’ve got the next couple weeks to discuss it. Go ahead and send me an email (I can be reached at cyganeria.milika@gmail.com)   with your thoughts anytime in that week, I’ll post it as a blog and discussion can follow. That way, we can delve into different aspects and interpretations of the story without hijacking the comment thread. Sometime in the next week, I’ll draw the name of our next chooser, and whether he or she will be choosing a story or an essay. Anyone is welcome to join, just comment below with a brief introduction and I’ll put your name in the hat!

We are only reading short stories or short essays, because most of us don’t have time to add anything longer to our reading lists, but any topic is acceptable, providing it’s not obscene. We read every two weeks and encourage discussion throughout the reading process, you can also feel free to go back and comment on old topics!

To introduce myself, I’m Masha, I blog at Cyganeria and Piekno. The first is focused primarily on art, beauty, and faith; the second on my daily life in an off-the-gird yurt. I spend most of my time chasing after my daughter, drinking coffee, and fighting chaos. Who are you?