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A whole lot of Christie short stories

The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

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Recently, my husband went away for work for a few days, and I treated myself to a puzzle and took full advantage of my Scribd subscription. After a while, I wanted a break from fantasy and also wanted something that didn’t involve too much thinking, so I returned to one of my old comfort reads: Agatha Christie. I’ve read and re-read most of the novels, so now I turned to her short stories collections. Some of them I had read before, some I recognized from […]

Fizzy, Fizzle, Fizz

One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin

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I don’t know if I liked this book or not. When I started it I loved it. The three longer form stories that open Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses are propulsive and intense. I read them sitting on a curb in the parking lot during a break at work. The second story “Madmen” about a world where young ladies are taken to a shelter to pick out a Madman to care for are a rite of passage into adulthood, is a soulful comment […]

I read this one too slow

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

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This is all on me. I read this too slow and it returned itself to the library before I could jot down my highlighted lines. I am not a digital highlighter AT ALL but I flagged at least four spots in here because the language was just that damn good and now they’re GONE. I read this slow because, well, I wasn’t sure I was going to finish it. I was about 40% through and just like “Ugh, okay, I’ll make it halfway, that’s good […]

The short story as an interlude

Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

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I must just have not been reading the right short stories because ever since I finally got around to How Long Till Black Future Month I have found my gear. Sabrina & Corina is one of the most fantastic story collections you will find out there right now, I fell into this book and never looked to come up for air. There is something about the way Fajardo-Anstine weaves her stories that makes them feel less separate, if that makes sense. This isn’t a disparate assembly of […]

Full Throttle – Another good short story collection from the Kings

Full Throttle by Joe Hill

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I have enormous respect for authors who step out of their comfort zone to try new things in their writing style. Joe Hill has always done that and this collection is no different. Most of the stories work but unfortunately some fell flat to me. When one takes chances, that is invariably a result, but as a reader I respect the effort and it makes me want to read more of that author going forward. There are two stories Joe wrote with his Dad, Stephen […]



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