Wednesday, 12 August 2009

The Book Seer

This is fun, because I am frankly a bit sad. You tell the Book Seer the title and author of the last book you read, and he (really some kind o' fancy software) suggests other books you might like. Merry japestering, as I am wont to do, I typed in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James and got... Well, try it yourself. Slightly baffled by W.H. Hudson's The Purple Land. I've only come across one other reference to this book, and it's not a complimentary one. Hemingway rubbishes it in passing in The Sun Also Rises

No comments:

Issue 59 is now available in print-on-demand format

The 59th issue of the long-running magazine offers a wide range of stories by British and American authors. From an anecdote told in a Yorks...