Posts Tagged ‘Short Story’

New Baby Slowed Novel Reading, Boosts Short Stories

books3 So with new baby Addison in house and doing well, I don’t think that I have read more than 40 pages of The Burrowers Beneath. Nothing against the book at all, I rather like it, but I might have to change titles to get my reading steady again, well novels at least.

The funny thing is that I have read no fewer than eight short stories over the last week and a half. I have found that I really don’t have the time to put in to reading a continued story line, but a story that is short and can be killed in a single sitting or two is prime. This is especially true with a newborn in house and a rather unexpected feeding schedule.

I will have to ponder which book to replace Titus Crowe with and possibly finish it later in the year.

On a separate note, I have been trying out Google Buzz and am actually liking it. It allows me to easily let friends know what is happening, ala Twitter,  from GMail, which is perpetually open anyway. It also lacks a lot of the other ridiculous features found in Facebook that do nothing more than annoy me to no ends.

Anyway, More later…

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

Rack-2 So I read this little gem of a story by Cory Doctorow this morning and I really liked it. And while I don’t explicitly believe in his “experiment” or his views on copyright, you cannot doubt that his short stories are great.

This story follows Felix and Van two system administrators who are trying to keep the major Canadian backbone of the Net online after a series of catastrophes have brought about a worldwide apocalypse. It’s a good story, and to prove it (only if awards are your thing I suppose) it won the 2007 Locus award for best novelette.

 

On a completely different note I need to figure out if and how short stories will add into my overall total for the 45 books in 2010. I’m thinking 2-1 if they are novellas, or 3 or 4-1 for novelettes. Hell I might not even care.