Shalee lhaih 2015: shiaghtin 44

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26oo Jerrey Fouyir - 1d Vee Houney

Jerrey kerroo shiaghtin as daeed ny Shalee Lhaih. Shoh ny lhiah mee yn çhiaghtin shoh chaie:

Star Light, Star Bright: The great short fiction of Alfred Bester, volume 2 (Alfred Bester)

Dhossan mie dy chaghlaaghyn skeeal liorish ughtar fondagh. Shimmey çhaglym "skeealyn share X" ta lhaiht aym, agh dy cadjin ta scansh eddyr oc. By vie lhiam dagh skeeal 'sy lioar shoh. T'ad cur ny smoo geill da sleih na sheanse, as ta fir beggan quaagh ry-akin dy kinjagh. Ta Bester goaill stiagh skeealyn soit er eie sheansagh chammah's fir elley ta fansee hene, bunnys. Ta blass aitt ayn myrgeddin son y chooid smoo, agh she aitt dorraghey t'ayn.

バクマン y.l. 1 (大場 つぐみ, 小畑 健)

Cha lhaih mee eshyn yn çhiaghtin shoh, agh toiggal dy ren mee lhaih eh 'syn Çhapaan hene y vlein shoh chaie.

Fockle s'jerree

Lhaih mee 2 lioar, va 73 aym yn çhiaghtin shoh chaie, myr shen ta 71 faagit dou nish. Shegin dou lhaih 21 lioaryn ayns 8 shiaghteeyn.

Wahll, ta cosney beg ny share na veg.

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English version

26th October - 1st November

The end of week forty-four of the Reading Project. Here's what I've read this week:

Star Light, Star Bright: The great short fiction of Alfred Bester, volume 2 (Alfred Bester)

A very solid collection (as you'd expect from a "best of") from a very good author. The stories range across a wide scope of sci fi, and most have a fantastical quality, as well as a tone that sits somewhere between dark humour and wry stoicism. Quirky individuals are a recurring theme. Though the stories are mostly relatively hard science, all touch on the human element and some focus on that above all. Bester also throws in a couple of stories without any science at all, such as the titular Star Light, Star Bright and a rather cheery post-apocalyptic story.

バクマン v. 1 (大場 つぐみ, 小畑 健)

I didn't actually read this this week, but I did come to the conclusion that I actually read it in Japan last autumn, and can take it off the list and move on to volume 2.

Afterword

I read 2 books this week, I had 73 last week, so 71 are left over. I have 21 books to read in 8 weeks.

That's a pleasant change, helped along by a very long train trip down to London and back.