GlosKat's blog

Some time ago I was reading a Dutch literary website which ran a sort of competition. Readers were invited to report on books which they had started, but never finished. The winner with the most votes (if you can call it that) was Donna Tartt's The Little Friend . So I thought it would be interesting to ask the ABC folk to submit their entries, and see if there are any regular offenders. It would have to be a book which you started, and never...

I haven't really been following the World Cup to be honest. I'm glad England did well, because I'm English and I see no shame in coming third out of 48. I haven't been watching any actual football, but I have been keeping up with the reporting on the BBC website. I find the readers' comments very interesting, it's people watching at one remove. And I like people watchng. There was one comment which contained a phrase which is going to be my...

Wow ! Having struggled with this for years, I'm bowled over by the number, and diversity, of the entries. 19 in all. We've had entries including army buddies and ABC itself, Buddhists, babies and ballet, cooking, DNA, Eastenders, fish, fabric and financial advice, the Olympics, sailing, sci-fi and sheep, and two lots of zebras. Almost an alphabet of subjects in itself Oh and one backwards .. It's difficult to pick a favourite, they were all so...

Don't forget tomorrow is the last day for entries to the Alphabet Challenge ! So far, we have had 13 very eclectic entries showcasing the wide variety of ABCers' imagination and vocabulary. Can we squeeze any more out of those little grey cells ?

Alphabet You Can’t Inspired by Soulfire77’s Frankenplot competition (and beholden to him for the title above) I thought I would offer to donate £25 to ABC to see what anyone can come up with for ‘an Alphabet story’. This means a coherent story where every word starts with the next letter of the alphabet eg “A bear called David eats figs greedily ..“ type thing. It doesn’t have to be a story, it could be a poem or a non-fiction prose piece, any...