Tagged: stories

Powsels and Thrums

Story does not instruct. It shows an open palm, not a pointing finger. Alan Garner – Powsels and Thrums : The Loom of Creation lecture published in The New Statesman, April...

from The one we feed by

Remember when my head was full of old proverbs and not a lick of fact? Yeah, well, I think it’s turned around now as I get older. Fewer facts. More proverbs....

The truth about stories by

From what I remember I bought this book a few years ago because of Aarti’s A More Diverse Universe reading challenge. I didn’t get around to reading it then, but for...

The silver dark sea by

Life is different when you live on an island. The sea is all important, whether or not you make you living from it. The sea can be heard everywhere, and to...

Here lies Arthur by

ISBN: 9780439955331 LibraryThing | Author’s site Some stories will never stop being retold. How many different versions of the Arthurian legends are there out there? And do we really need another?...