Tag: short stories
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from the Broke and the Bookish. I know I have been very absent from the blog in the past month or so, but I promise I will be better about that in the future. There are some changes coming to the blog, but I will talk about that…
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Top Ten Tuesday is brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic was to find 10 books that you read recently that were outside your comfort zone. I read pretty much everything, and there’s not a lot that I’m uncomfortable with, but last year’s challenge gave me the opportunity to read…
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Women Writers Reading Challenge: #68-75 The End
Annie Proulx, audio books, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Kostova, fiction, From Whitechapel, Hilary Mantel, k and Angela Carter, Kelly Link, kindle, Magic For Beginners, Melanie Clegg, nonfiction, Poetry, short stories, Sylvia Plath, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, The Shipping News, The Swan Thieves, We Two: Victoria and Albert, Wives and DaughtersAt first I was going to post the rest of the reading challenge one book at a time, like I did for all the rest of the books, but then I decided that would take weeks to get them all out there, and meanwhile I wouldn’t be able to start posting this year’s books.…
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I read this book right on the heels of Lorrie Moore’s book Self-Help, which was unavoidable since it was due at the library, but was nevertheless a mistake. Where I felt that Moore showed compassion, Gaitskill seemed objective almost to the point of being clinical sometimes. Her stories are still very good and move nicely, and…
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Some books have a reputation that precedes them. People talk about them with reverence as if they are a gift given down from the writing gods. I’m usually a bit cautious about these books because there are quite a number of brilliant writers that I’m not all that enthusiastic about. Hemingway comes immediately to mind.…
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I’m always a little wary when it comes to short stories (probably holdover trauma from getting a writing minor and reading the same kinds of short stories over and over again…). I’ve only recently discovered a love for stories that feature the fantastic. If it’s based on a fairy tale, is dark and twisted, or…
Allison Burris 