Thursday, December 22, 2011

National short Story Day and Words for Christmas

The shortest day today and what better way to fill it with light than to celebrate National Short Story Day, and what better way to wish my readers Happy Christmas than to direct you to the website, where there's a feast of stories, and many short story recommendations. My own favourites (here) are Grace Paley's 'A Conversation With My Father' and 'The Universal Story' by Ali Smith: click the recommendations link on the home page to see choices of a host of others.

Speaking of recommendations, I was going to recommend to you Mark Forsyth's Etymologicon, the book from his erudite and witty blog on etymology - I'm a sucker for such things and I'm putting it in stockings - but it's clear I don't need to: it's book of the Week on Radio 4 and currently Amazon's best-selling book - pretty amazing for a book from a small publisher. Meerkats one year, the origins of words the next - there's no accounting for the British!

Merry Christmas, everyone!


Crossposted with my author blog, Elizabeth Baines

2 comments:

Sally Zigmond said...

And a merry one to you, too, Elizabeth.

I hadn't heard of 'Etymologicon' until I read this post and have now downloaded it on my Kindle and have just spent a happy few minutes reading the first few pages and know it's exactly the sort of book I love. Thank you.

(I didn't buy the Meerkat book last year.)

Elizabeth Baines said...

Glad you're enjoying it, Sally! Happy Christmas!