A book of significance: Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories

by Conor McLaughlin

• The memory I have of the book is in a classroom at NUIG, with my Modern Literature Seminar.

• I had enjoyed as much as I’d read of the book

• I liked the pace, I liked the variety of characters.

• I hadn’t finished the book and still haven’t read all of them. I’ve reread Bliss and sections of Prelude and a couple of others, the voyage. It’s very good.

• A class reading list

• I had got the book from the college book shop as it was on my seminar reading list.

• I was reading in the classroom because I was terrible for not reading before class.

• It’s usually a quiet place save for the voices of the class. Except the day of the memory in particular had builders on the roof drilling and working.

• The place is inside on the secnd floor of towerblock 1 in the NUIG Arts Concourse.

• Beautiful sunshine in April of last year.

• I don’t usually go here to read.

• It’s part of my regular journey to college.

• I was last there Octoer of last year.

• I associate warm dusty carpets with the room

• I brought Anna Mae Sheehan here once

• I would bring Aaron Simpson.