2024 Reading Summary: February (+ Writing Update)
Completed reads for February:
- Tarzan of the Apes, by E.R. Burroughs
- The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Poison Belt, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures, by Heinrich Hoffman
- The Moon Hoax, by Richard Adams Locke
- The Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales, to the World in the Moon, by Francis Godwin
- A Description of the Pike of Teneriff, by Thomas Sprat
- Somnium, by Johannes Kepler
- The Land of Mist, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Disintegration Machine, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- When the World Screamed, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Pilgrims of Hope (poem), by William Morris
- News from Nowhere, by William Morris
- The Bride of Corinth (poem), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Erlkönig (poem), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Lenore (poem), by Gottfried August Bürger
- Miss Kitty: A Parody (poem), by Anonymous
Finding Kepler’s Somnium in an online English translation is infamously nasty. I can recommend starting here: https://somniumproject.wordpress.com/somnium/ – but that only gets you the first half of the story. For the second half, go to the appropriate part here: https://frostydrew.org/papers.dc/papers/paper-somnium/pss-fdo/
Lenore is the Rossetti translation.
February was quiet, but not unproductive, in the writing department. I dusted off two unsold short stories of mine – Prison for One, and Capital Notions – and gave them a polish and rewrite. Formatting was an existing issue for both, and the former needed some three hundred words knocked off. The latter has also earned itself a name change, so it is now To Play the Queen of Hearts. Both stories have been sent off again. I really want to find a home for Prison for One, given that I first wrote it in January 2018, and it has gathered dust ever since.
In terms of new fiction, I have started a new horror piece about ornamental hermits. The preliminary title is At the Bottom of the Garden.
A Phuulish Fellow 