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Each story is a glittering jewel set in a heavy crown.

Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories by Lauren Groff

April 18, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Often, short story collections can be a bit of a mixed bag – especially when all written by the same author. I frequently find myself speed-reading through “filler” in hopes of finding some “killer”. As always, Lauren Groff turns your expectations to crystal and smashes them into a million brittle and beautiful pieces. Each one of the eight stories collected in this book could be their own novels- I could spend days drifting through Groff’s worlds. The first tale, “Lucky Chow Fun”, takes place in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: andtheIToldYouSos, arcadia, brave women, fates and furies, historical fiction, lauren groff, monsters of templeton

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: andtheIToldYouSos, arcadia, brave women, fates and furies, historical fiction, lauren groff, monsters of templeton ·
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It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

December 25, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a play by Tom Stoppard, best known for The Real Inspector Hound and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. This takes place on an English estate in the early 1800s during a tutoring session initially between a girl in her teens and her young, educated tutor. We learn that Lord Byron is also going to be here this weekend and the scholar clearly feels somewhat intimidated and annoyed by this news.. As the scene ends and the next scene begins, we are told by the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: arcadia, Tom Stoppard

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:715 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: arcadia, Tom Stoppard ·
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