Collected Stories
Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams
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"Disturbing, moving, and funny; these stories help amplify Williams' tragic vision, for like the...
*＊✿❀ Maki ❀✿＊* (7 KP) rated Annotated in Podcasts
May 3, 2018
They're currently in their second season, and if it's anything like the first, the run is probably going to be short. (Season 1 was only 6 episodes long.)
But they pack a lot of information and a variety of topics into the episodes that they do have.
Irene M (130 KP) rated And I Thought Divorce Was Bad: With Other Life Lessons in Books
Dec 7, 2018
A collection of poetry, words of wisdom and short stories, all surrounding the subject of a relationship gone wrong, and through the healing process. After a short prologue poem the first item of prose is called “A Shiner” … a hard hitter in more way that one.
There was one or two small grammatical things I saw, but that's just me being a bit picky as it was not enough to take away from the heart-string pulling writing.
Well worth a read
Shadowfall Shorts
L. Gene Brown and L. Ann
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Shadowfall Shorts is our short story collection, featuring four stories:- It's Dru's birthday and...
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Hazel (1853 KP) rated Love Hurts in Books
Dec 17, 2018
Love Hurts is a young adult book containing several stories compiled together by the well-known Malorie Blackman. There are a few new short stories however most are extracts from pre-existing novels. The short stories are written by a variety of different authors such as Susie Day, Lauren Dockrill, Lauren Kate, Catherine Johnson and James Dawson. Many readers will be familiar with these authors as well as some of the books that the extracts are from, for example: More Than This, If I Stay, I Am The Messenger and Northern Lights.
The aim of this anthology is to explore what love means. Love is not a simple, straightforward concept. There is love lost and love found, bitter love and sweet love. Each story focuses on a different perspective. Some are about teenagers, some are about adults. Some are about homosexuality and others are not.
Love Hurts is an interesting concept and it is interesting to see different authors' understanding on the term "love". The biggest problem with this book however is due to most of the entries being snippets of other stories as it is often difficult to understand what was going on and who the characters were.
Another issue for me was I found some of the stories uninteresting and difficult to get into; and as they were short there was not a lot of time to appreciate the different concepts and styles of writing.
Although it would have been a challenge, it would have been better for all the stories to be brand new and unique. On he other hand, Malorie Blackman has done an excellent job at sourcing all the content.
ClareR (5854 KP) rated Mouthful of Birds in Books
Apr 11, 2019
I think collections of stories like this are generally better as books that are dipped in and out of, and used as a palate cleanser every now and again. To read them all one after the other doesn’t do them the justice that they deserve.
I am very interested to see where Schweblin goes with her next novel, she has a very interesting imagination!
Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher, Oneworld Publications, for my copy of this book.
Hollywood Dreaming: Stories, Pictures, and Poems
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In his follow-up to A California Childhood, James Franco reflects on his life in Hollywood and...
Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories
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Morse had solved so many mysteries in his life. Was he now, he wondered, beginning to glimpse the...
Afraid of the Christmas Lights
Val McDermid, Sophie Hannah, T.E. Kinsey, Mark Billingham, Elle Croft, Phoebe Morgan, James Delargy, S.R. Masters, Victoria Selman, Clare Empson, Harriet Tyce, Kate Simants, Heather Critchlow, Adam Southward, N.J. Mackay, Rachael Blok, Dominic Nolan, Jo Furniss and Robert Scragg
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IT WOULDN’T BE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT A LITTLE CRIME… A Christmas dinner takes a murderous turn, a...
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