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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella in Books

Oct 7, 2020

As promised, my first book review of the New Year is for "Brides in the Sky" by Cary Holliday, which is a collection of mostly historical fiction short stories and a novella. If you ask me, shorter fiction is harder to write than novels, and you can find out if Holladay succeeded with this format on my new blog, here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2019/01/04/inconvenient-separations/

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Under the Phone

Nicholas Leonard Ivey

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Everyone loves their phone, but when phones start connecting to people's brains, the effects...

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All in the Head: & Other Tales With a Twist

Judith Thomas

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This compelling collection of 18 short stories gives an insight into the psychological response to...

Lure: Read Chat Fiction

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Lure features a huge collection of chat fiction; short stories told with text messages, like if you...

Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated A Thousand Years of Good Prayers in Books

Sep 21, 2017

Impressive collection of short stories about pre- and post-revolution China

This collection of short stories by Yiyun Li is both charming and a little disconcerting, showing how Chinese citizens attempt to live in a changed consumer communist society. From a gay man attempting to eke out a space for himself after returning from America to China, to those with mental health issues and parents with more than one child, Li showcases a plethora of characters and voices, many reflective of her own experiences.

The first story about an elderly woman trying to work and survive, and feeling love for a young boy after many years of loneliness is poignant and sombre. While the final story is similar to Li's experience of living in America - she is in reality a dissident and at one point couldn't leave the country to collect an award for this book, hence the book is remarkable in the fact that it feels completely plausible. Even more laudable is the fact that she had only learnt English for six years when she wrote the book. It is a wonderful collection of stories.