If you were, next adventure, packing to spend time a time to call your own, alone on a desert island and could only take a very limited amount of reading matter which, if the choice became binary, would you pack the three short story collections of the three novels?
That is such a difficult question, my goodness. My instant response was short stories because there would be more of them? But then thereтАЩs a question of immersion and wanting to drag something out, which you can do with a novel..
Thankfully you are not guest of the week on BBC Radio 4's long running 'Desert Island Discs' where in addition to the music selected you get to take away a copy of the bible and just one other book ЁЯШ▓ .
And, yes, it is a tricky decision I've invited you to make. Maybe the compromise might be to ask for plentiful pen and paper as your one allowed luxury? Then, when not spending every moment simply surviving, maybe your instant response might work out... all those short stories to immerse yourself in growing on and out to blossom as novels?
STOP PRESS And I 've just realised that I read - or the Gremlin running wild in my mind or could it have been an AI Bot running renegade on the words written on y PC screen - 'Emma' as 'Amber'... I would put it down to advancing age but that would be unfair to aging as I've been prone to such daft misreadings of words, thankfully only now and then, since I was but a boy ЁЯдг
Are your "extra 9 books" all volumes of short fiction Amber?
3 short fiction collections and 6 novels!
If you were, next adventure, packing to spend time a time to call your own, alone on a desert island and could only take a very limited amount of reading matter which, if the choice became binary, would you pack the three short story collections of the three novels?
That is such a difficult question, my goodness. My instant response was short stories because there would be more of them? But then thereтАЩs a question of immersion and wanting to drag something out, which you can do with a novel..
Thankfully you are not guest of the week on BBC Radio 4's long running 'Desert Island Discs' where in addition to the music selected you get to take away a copy of the bible and just one other book ЁЯШ▓ .
And, yes, it is a tricky decision I've invited you to make. Maybe the compromise might be to ask for plentiful pen and paper as your one allowed luxury? Then, when not spending every moment simply surviving, maybe your instant response might work out... all those short stories to immerse yourself in growing on and out to blossom as novels?
STOP PRESS And I 've just realised that I read - or the Gremlin running wild in my mind or could it have been an AI Bot running renegade on the words written on y PC screen - 'Emma' as 'Amber'... I would put it down to advancing age but that would be unfair to aging as I've been prone to such daft misreadings of words, thankfully only now and then, since I was but a boy ЁЯдг