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> Genre: Short Stories

How we remember the future

Tales From The Loop by Simon Stalenhag

March 29, 2021 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

I got into this book in the most backward way possible. I was looking for more Phillip Glass music, when I found his score for the show; so then I watched the show; then I bought the book. But it speaks to the quality of it that, as I flipped through the pages and looked at the vignettes and the memory-style stories, I put Glass’s music on and it matched perfectly. You may remember a few years back when a series of paintings of retro-style […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Amazon, Simon Stalenhag, tales from the loop

Claire Badger's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Amazon, Simon Stalenhag, tales from the loop ·
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Bloodchild and Other Stores – Octavia E Butler (1995)

Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler

March 29, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the second time I’ve read this book, and given that thee stories are linked to endnotes and afterwords by Octavia Butler, it’s a valuable book for a lot of reasons, reading the stories themselves, not always. Butler tells us in the opening introduction that for the most part, she’s not a short story writer. She suggests that a lot of short stories either end up becoming novels, or are clearly novel openings that need to be abandoned, and this collection sometimes feels like […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: bloodchild, octavia butler

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:100 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: bloodchild, octavia butler ·
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Unfortunately this one falls short for me

Sakina's Restaurant by Aasif Mandvi

March 21, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

In trying to get out of my reading slump I went back to my old Audible library to see what was hanging out there that I hadn’t listened to yet. One of the books there was Sakina’s Restaurant by Aasif Mandvi. I thought I was getting a straightforward short story not a recording of a one man show, and that effected my experience, I think. There’s a way you tell a story when you are going to be in front of an audience versus when […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: aasif mandvi, audiobook, faintingviolet, immigrant experience, one man show, Sakina's Restaurant

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: aasif mandvi, audiobook, faintingviolet, immigrant experience, one man show, Sakina's Restaurant ·
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David Sedaris - The Best of Me

Let’s pretend this was never published

The Best of Me by David Sedaris

March 21, 2021 by Rooooomie Leave a Comment

I’ve been a fan of David Sedaris’s writing for a very long time; Me Talk Pretty One Day was the first book of his that I read, and I quickly blew through his back catalogue at the time. Since then, I’ve bought and read every new book he has released, including his latest, The Best of Me. I’ve been in a bit of a reading rut this year, so when trying to decide what to read next, I was confident Sedaris’s latest release would break […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: CBR13, David Sedaris

Rooooomie's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: CBR13, David Sedaris ·
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A Stranger World

The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla Grudova

February 22, 2021 by blauracke Leave a Comment

Women shed their outer skin to reveal their true insect self, a man with eight legs is looking for a suitable companion, two girls become obsessed with a magical sewing machine, and a wooden mermaid gives birth to a sconce after being beset by an octopus. These are just a few of the short stories in the book, and they all are cut from the same cloth: a scratchy, worn-out fabric depicting a warped reality. The world in which The Doll’s Alphabet takes place is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Camilla Grudova

blauracke's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Camilla Grudova ·
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