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“The world is a dark place, full of many kinds of wolves.“

Thanks for the tag @mollyrotondo ❣️

1. It's hard not to. A nice cover catches the eyes, but I do try to rely more on reviews & summaries
2. It was only $4.32 on Amazon! 💸
3. Multiple sources
4. At least twice!
5. @HOTPock3tt @catiewithac

#friyayintro @4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

I would love too @emmaturi thanks so much for the tag! I can‘t wait to read Daisy Jones and the Six!! This is my favorite cover ever!! #7days7covers #covercrush

I don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but the author Jen Campbell has a whole series on her YouTube channel about the origins of fairy tales. Lots of good watching! #happilyeverafterswap @Chrissyreadit

#adventrecommends day 23

I hardly ever read a short story collection and when I do, I take my time with it. The exception is this collection, I raced through it.

Was a beautiful book I like all the stories. Hope she will write more short stories. It has a nice dark atmosphere without been too scary. Really good for Halloween season. #shortstories #bookly

Short stories - well written - creative - a bit bizarre. Beautiful naked hardback 💖

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Like all short story collections, not every story will work for each reader, but for me my overall impression was buoyed by the standouts in the collection, namely ‘In The Dark‘ and ‘Margaret and Mary at the End of the World.‘ The latter touched on quite dark content in an otherwise very whimsical collection, but it‘s the one that has stayed with me since finishing this book!

Two books of #shortstories by women, both with anatomical hearts on the cover. I love it. #readingwomenmonth @thereadingwomen

This very pretty book is full of fairytale inspired stories, although rather dark and weird stories. One story is called Aunt Libby‘s #Coffin Hotel, which is about a girl who helps her aunt run a hotel where the guests sleep in coffins and participate in seances to be closer to the people they have lost.

#CoolBooks

Day twelve - short stories. This collection is written by one of my favorite booktubers. Also, this cover is gorgeous! #readingwomenmonth #readingwomenchallenge #daytwelve

5 books read this month and I'm happy about that. Favorites are the tagged collection of short stories and The Children's Book. I'm not a huge short story reader, but I've already started a new collection. That has never happened before.

I haven't read since Monday, this heat is killing me. There was a new heat record for May yesterday at 31,1 degrees. I don't know what that's in F. And I'm perfectly aware that's normal for several Littens.

I'm not much of a short story reader, and can probably count on one all the collections I've read in my life. But this collection, just WOW. The mix of fairy tales and a little weird, I just loved it. And each and everyone had my thinking at the end.

What is the short stories about you ask?
Among others there's a girl running a coffin hotel, a couple rewriting the history of the world in the middle of the night and a man who buy animal hearts.

#manicmonday

1. Done. Also tagging the other 3 in the comments

2. I didn't start reading until I was 13 yrs. It was my best friend at the time that introduced me to reading. She was talking nonstop about an author. A borrowed a book and was hooked

3. Vacations. Since it isn't vacation everyday, I also like the weekends

4. Of recent reads Jude from "A Little Life"

#4NewFavesin4days day 4/4 📚

Thanks for the fun tag @Cinfhen

First book for the #readathon #teamanz2018

Opening Questions answered ✅
Summarised below:
1) location
2) most anticipated book
3) most anticipated snack
4) facts about you
5) what are you doing different/most looking forward to

#readathon #teamanz2018

A collection of thought provoking short stories. They all have an element of the fantastical about them (either real or fabricated) and many of them are ambiguous, dropping you right into the middle of the scene. Dealing with topics like grief, love, death, divorce and sex, not fairy stories to share with your kids, but quick reads for a more mature audience. Be warned, the first one in the collection is super creepy! But keep going...

So here I go again: Little Miss Unpopular Opinion.

The writing was beautiful, formed with a humbling purity. The stories were staggeringly inventive, thought provoking, soul inspiring....

Aww shucks, who am I trying to kid? I just didn't like it.

I can appreciate beautiful writing. It's just not my bag as far as entertainment goes. This is just not the format for me. I just found it ... (sorry).... kinda irritating.

Love this cover! Can't wait till the offspring is a-bed and I can get back to this one. Only another hour to go ....

I loved this collection of strange, eerie tales. They're full of the dark magic of myth and fairy tale and reflect the unsettling magic of everyday strangeness. Campbell's writing is lovely and though each tale and she has impressive skill with the short story format, the lengths vary but each story is perfectly encapsulated in the space granted to it.

The first story in this collection doesn‘t involve a #chemicalheart, but it does involve animal hearts and glass hearts which are produced to be put into human bodies, if their hearts break for some reason or other. It is dark and weird, but kind of fragile and beautiful at the same time 💜💜

#MarchintoOz

Just a few more library books to add to my overflowing stack 🙈📚 #libraryhaul #yetanotherlibraryhaul

I've been taking my time with this one as I don't like to read short stories all in one go. I love Jen Campbell's style and how quirky and well written her stories are. You can tell this is a woman immersed in fairy tales and the art of story telling. Very nicely done!

Congratulations on your absolutely amazing milestone @cobwebmoth ! 1000 followers is incredible! This is a collection of short stories that I just finished and I was surprised by how much I liked it as short stories aren‘t my usual sort of thing !
#surprisedgiveaway ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

About to start this fabulous book by one of my favourite authors

Short Stories for #RiotGrams...

I‘m usually not overly excited about short stories but the synopsis of this one sounds amazing...

7 days 7 book covers. Post a book cover you love. No explanation, no information on the book. Just a book cover you love.

Day 6

#7days7bookcovers

So for #day4 of the #riotgrams the theme is purple. Surprisingly enough this is the only book that is purple....

This was so weird and fascinating and completely different to anything else I have read. Short stories linked to fairy tales and my goodness they were so lovely and creepy and magical. I would definitely read more. It says in the author‘s note, that Campbell has a YouTube channel so I guess that‘s my next stop!

So excited for both of these books! And those covers are to die for! #bookhaul

Like a fool I left my current book at home. Like a bookaholic, there‘s always something in my library that I want to read!! Excited to start on this Jen Campbell, have only read her non fiction before so hoping this is as good!

Next up...

I enjoy Jen Campbell's Booktube vlogs and have heard her interviewed but this is my first time reading her work.

Also, it must be a record as this is book 16 for me this month! That hasn't happened since I studied English and American Lit at uni.

First: that cover 😍😍

Second: I loved this collection. Campbell is a born storyteller, and you can really see her poetry experience shine through in her writing. Some sentences were beyond beautiful! The stories were delightfully weird and whimsical, but also with varying degrees of darkness. 👌

#RecommendationsChallenge2018 #24in48

I‘m calling it a day after close to 10 hours of reading. I finished these two this evening, and I can‘t wait to continue readathoning in the morning 📚

#24in48

Back on the print book reading track 📖 so far this short story collection is delightfully weird, and I‘m enjoying it a lot!

#24in48

Oh how I adored this book! I need a new word though, because I cannot find one to capture the feel of these stories. They are magical and lyrical and whimsical and yet dark and sometimes heartbreakingly sad. This is my first finished book for #24in48, but I had started it prior to today. (Slightly more than two hours down.)

My to-choose-from pile for #24in48. So very much looking forward to a weekend wallowing in books.

My collection of tbr short #stories. I love fairy tales and fairy tale retellings, which definitely shows in my choices of short story collections 📚

#NuYear

Hey @BkClubCare — the title of this short story made me think of you. Of course! And thinking of you made me smile. 😊

Some of the best, most compelling and creepiest short stories I've read in a long while. There's a fairytale twist to all of them, though sometimes I was left with the feeling that I didn't quite get something. There are coffin hotels, mail order hearts, fish girls, devil crabs and apple trees from the beginning of time.

Next up is this collection of very, very weird short stories.

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." - C.S. Lewis

One of my resolutions this year is to get back on Litsy! Everyone is so friendly, idk why I left. Anyway! One of my Christmas books was The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night. I thought it was ok but many of the stories blurred into one, unfortunately.

#shortstory #fairytale

Second part of my #bookhaul with my gift certificate I got for Christmas. 📚👌

That cover of The Beginning of the World... 😍😍 already a strong contender for best cover of the year!

#Bookmail

Brought the kids to the library on this hot day of the LONG school holidays. Picked up this book I requested they purchase after hearing about it on a podcast. The kids are happy playing with a huge pile of Lego so I'm going to start it right now.

Last night I went to #lushbookclub to see the amazing Jen Campbell read and talk about The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night. More photos on my Instagram Stories: http://www.instagram.com/juliannebenford #authortalk #shortstories

I just got my final copy in the post, and this naked hardback is freaking gorgeous.