To continue this great energy booster mini project, I’ll read the next short story on the anthology The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian, The God in the Bowl.

As with the last story, The Frost-Giant’s Daughter, I was already familiar with these adventures of Conan from their comic book adaptation by Dark Horse Comics of the 2000’s

For tomorrow, I’ll probably switch books, I’m contemplating a story from Legends II anthology, there’s one from Robin Hobb that’s making googly eyes at me.

For now, I am off to read, and get ready for a weekend filled with reading.

azr.

I completed successfully the first day of my new mini project, to read one short story a day for th rest of 2021.

As I say, I will be going thru some anthologies, mainly fantasy ones, and kick start my day with a short but sweet story.

Yesterday was The Phoenix on the Sword, from The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian, and today is The Frost-Giant’s Daughter, from the same book.

For now, I am off to read.

azr

It is no secret that I am going thru a reading slump.

Since the beginning of 2021, I just can’t catch a good reading rhythm.

Yesterday, I was trying to put some sense of order in my bookshelves, and I came across a series of anthologies by Robert E. Howard, the famous creator of Conan The Barbarian.

It hit me, that maybe I can start my day not only with my standard issued black coffee, it can be accompanied with a short but sweet story, so I begin scheming.

For the remaining days of the year I will start my reading day with a short story, that’s 332 stories.

To kick off this new mini project, I’ll read a story from the book that inspire it, The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian.

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And the first story in this anthology will be The Phoenix and the Sword, originally published on Weird Tales of December 1932.

For now, I am going off to read.

azr