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Bookwomble This is one of my favourite quotes 😊 2d

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JamieArc

Stranger Things Happen | Kelly Link

I finished this a month ago. And I put it as a blurb because I‘ve been thinking this whole time how to review it and I just can‘t figure it out! The title says it all. Strange things indeed. I feel like a lot passed over my head but I had to keep reading to figure out where the story was going to go. I can‘t say I‘m as enamored by Link as others seem to be, but I want to read more of her. #AuldLangSpine

monalyisha, Billypar

JamieArc I really wish I had read this with others to talk about. Also, I really loved the Nancy Drew-ish cover. 3d

sarahbarnes I like her short stories better than her novel. I liked Get in Trouble a lot. I‘m going to add this one to my list. 3d

JamieArc @sarahbarnes Thanks for that rec. I will put it on my TBR. 3d

Billypar Get in Trouble is probably my favorite too of the three I've read @sarahbarnes (I haven't read her novel yet). Her style is very unique and dreamy @JamieArc - when I finish one of her stories, I immediately wish I could discuss it! Definitely not for everyone though. My fav from Stranger Things is the opening story, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. 3d

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Gissy

Monday Or Tuesday | Virginia Woolf

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January 2025 Book #7
My experience with short story collection is that like/enjoy some stories more than others just like this collection. Some of stories were so beautifully written, others in my humble opinion, were like beautiful expressions but didn‘t feel like a short story for me. 3.5⭐️

Gissy #BookSpinBingo #4 BuddyRead #VirginiaBloomberries (January book) @Alldebooks #GoodReadsAroundTheYear2025 prompt #8 collection of short stories 4d

AllDebooks Great review.❤️ 😊❤️ 2d

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Teresereading

Fen | Daisy Johnson

The land was drained.
#firstlineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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vivastory

High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006 | Joyce Carol Oates

My #ThorsDayRec this week is a 700 page collection that I finished at the end of January this year after starting it the beginning of Dec last year. There are numerous memorable stories collected in this retrospective, the title story itself is one of the greatest pieces of American 20th C noir fiction. When JC Oates is on point, she is right up there with Shirley Jackson & Patricia Highsmith IMO. Absolutely fantastic.

tpixie Intrigued! Great review! 4d

Ruthiella I recently found out that the movie Smooth Talk with Laura Dern is based on the Oates‘ short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”. It‘s a good, but uncomfortable, film. 4d

vivastory @tpixie Thanks! There were so many fantastic stories in here. It would usually take me awhile to get through a retrospective this big, but I have always found Oates short stories very compelling (strangely enough although I have read several books of her short fiction I have yet to read one of her novels). 4d

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vivastory @Ruthiella It's funny you mention that; one of my streaming services is Criterion & while I was reading this CC had a Laura Dern retrospective including that movie. That felt like a cross between Shirley Jackson & Flannery O'Connor (edited) 4d

tpixie @vivastory despite her being a famous author I never have read her. I need to fix that! 4d

TheBookHippie Guess I‘ll move this up the list. 4d

vivastory @tpixie @TheBookHippie I think that this is a good volume to check out from your library if possible. If it is available, I recommend just reading where you want to. I had no intentions whatsoever of reading this beginning-to-end when I checked it out, it just worked out that way! 4d

tpixie @vivastory thanks for the tip! 4d

Branwen I feel really guilty for this admission, but JCO is an author that I really WISH I loved! 😭 I have tried to read so many different of her works, and each one has left me feeling disappointed. 😔 Do you have a favorite work by her? Maybe I could try that and see if it changes my mind? 2d

vivastory @Branwen I've only read her short works. I really liked Evil Eye. Also, her story Doll-Master is worth reading. It's one of the most unsettling things I've ever read. 1d

Branwen @vivastory Okay, maybe I'll give one of her shorter works a try! 🥰 Thanks, Scott! 22h

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Amie

Angel of Rome: And Other Stories | Jess Walter

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Excellent short stories

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andrew61

The Hotel: From the Booker Prize-Shortlisted Author | Daisy Johnson

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I picked this up in the library and it is an excellently scary set of tales based in a haunted hotel on the fens. The underlying them is treatment of women over the years from the opening images of a woman blamed by villagers for children's deaths by plague, to hotel staff being mauled by lascivious men. The reading was enhanced by my then listening to the BBC series which came first + led to the book. Definitely worth reading and enjoyably creepy

LeahBergen Stacked! 4d

Cathythoughts I‘m stacking too 👍🏻 4d

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xicanti

Bad Endings | Carleigh Baker

Saki‘s just chillin‘ by my fireside bookstack. The top book, BAD ENDINGS, is my current short story collection, and it‘s a strong one. Carleigh Baker excels at finding the slices of experience that illuminate a character‘s life. #MFMarch

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 5d

Ruthiella 😻😻😻 5d

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 4d

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BBowling

Ford County | John Grisham

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Everything you want in character and place. Loved this read even better than his legal thrillers. A satisfying collection of stories.

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TheKidUpstairs

Dubliners | James Joyce

Happy St Paddy's Day! ☘️☘️☘️

I started my day with a couple stories from the tagged while drinking tea my parents brought back from their last trip to Ireland 🇮🇪 before jumping into the kitchen to bake soda bread to go with tonight's dinner. Next, on to Dublin Coddle while the music plays! If you're looking for a playlist today, I love this one: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0GpyyMiGai1OHwfmkSEG6c?si=P7_wQtDjQ_mvsSdrPqua...

Deblovestoread Bread looks amazing! 1w

TheKidUpstairs #foodandlit #Ireland @Catsandbooks @Texreader 1w

TheKidUpstairs @Deblovestoread thank you! 1w

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Texreader I love soda bread! I need to make some too!! 1w

sarahbarnes Very cool! 🍀 1w

Leftcoastzen Soda bread ! 👏👏👏👏 1w

Catsandbooks Yum! 🇮🇪 6d

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