2024 Reading Summary (+ Writing Update)

Completed reads for March:




Lamia (poem), by John Keats



The Moon Pool, by Abraham Merritt



A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking



Inverted World, by Christopher Priest



Fugue for a Darkening Island, by Christopher Priest



The Secrets of Dr John Taverner (collection), by Dion Fortune



St Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries, by St Benedict of Nursia



Venus in Furs, by Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch



Island Nights’ Entertainments (collection), by Robert Louis Stevenson



The Secret Book of John (The Apocryphon of John)




St Benedict’s Rule is Doyle’s translation. Venus in Furs is the Savage translation. The Apocryphon of John is Davies’.











Very little writing done this month, due to real-life getting in the way. I have managed some minor progress on my ornamental hermit story, At the Bottom of the Garden. I can also report that my polished up stories from February have both suffered rejections.