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merelybookish
How You Were Born | Kate Cayley
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An excellent collection of short stories by Canadian Kate Cayley. (Originally published in 2014, this new edition is coming out soon with 3 additional stories.) Each story is a little gem, a careful observation of human behavior. Indeed in many of the stories, characters are observing others, and figuring out their own reliance on/distance from/ connection to other people. #netgalley

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Kazzie
We Have Never Lived On Earth | Kasia Van Schaik
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Very good. Interconnected stories. Such a good exploration of family and place and love

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mdemanatee
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Bedtime stories

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pdxannie
Heartbroke | Chelsea Bieker
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I picked this book up on Saturday morning when the library opened and it‘s Monday night and I just finished it. Could. Not. Put. It. Down. Holy shit it was so well written. It was refreshing writing. I placed the author‘s only other book on hold. I became aware of her because she‘s going to be at Powell‘s in April with Amanda Montell (author of Wordslut and Cultish). I am a huge Montell fan girl but now I might be more excited to see Bieker?!

pdxannie Also, it should come with every trigger warning. 2w
birdie_gw Looks interesting! Short stories? 2w
pdxannie @birdie_gw yes but some of the stories have recurring characters. 2w
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birdie_gw Ah ok I like that! Will see if my library has it. 2w
birdie_gw (They do) 2w
pdxannie Hell yes!! 2w
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vlwelser
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Set in Thailand. Loosely tied together short stories with recurring characters. This took a while to read but it was me. I'm the problem. Some of the characters and their stories are more compelling than others.

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Pub date is way past. 😂
#ARC # Netgalley

TheBookHippie 🙃🤣 4w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4w
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i.z.booknook
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Penny bloods were popular in the early 19th century and emerged as a response to the first-wave of gothic literature. Penny bloods were written by the Average Joe and went more for sensationalism over artistic expression but were popular and made good money. However, they still contained important social issues but were largely transgressive literature, particularly to do with transgressive women. (Cont. in comments 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻)

i.z.booknook (1) In this collection, Dittmer displays some of the most outlandish female characters created in this era, perhaps most famously, Mrs Lovett. Many of the stories also deal with the supernatural including vampires and a story inspired by the witches of Macbeth. This was a really interesting collection to read and made me think about the current debate around modern literature. 4w
i.z.booknook (2) I see on things like BookTok debates around the quality of popular publications recently and there appears to be parallels with the penny bloods, things like simple construction, ‘fan-fiction‘, eroticism and less traditional authors, but these penny bloods were popular for a reason and were more accessible to the masses during a time when working-class literacy was on the rise. 4w
i.z.booknook (3) Besides, there was still so much artistry and intrigue in these stories and it was great to read stories that weren‘t written by the great or privileged. I wonder how we will look back on this period of increased reading. 4w
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Traci1
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I've just imported my books from goodreads into SG. I have no idea really how to use it. Any tips for a new user? I'm planning on doing the trial month and then paying for the upgraded version if I like it enough. Suggestions on how to get the most out of the app would be appreciated...or if there's a good youtube or tiktok tutorial, I'd go for that as well. Thanks!!

Kimberlone Tracking your progress on your currently reading is pretty similar to Goodreads, so you will pick up on it quickly. IMO the biggest asset of Storygraph is the automatically created graphs and statistics about your reading. If you keep your reading up to date, you can see your changing stats all throughout the year and month to month. I don‘t have the paid sub, but one optional feature I use regularly are tags to track the origin of each book. 1mo
Traci1 @Kimberlone I used GR mostly because I tend to forget if I've read a book or not. But other than that, it's been severely lacking. I'm excited about all the statistics. 1mo
IndoorDame The stats are amazing! So are the ability to track readings challenges! 1mo
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julesG The reading challenges are great, I agree! @IndoorDame Also buddy reads and readalongs. I've been using the free version of StoryGraph for some time now, I don't think I'm missing out on any features. 1mo
Traci1 @IndoorDame @julesG which reading challenges are you doing? I was thinking about doing one of the tackle your tbr ones. 1mo
IndoorDame @Traci1 I have the same screename over there, so you can easily check out all my challenges. I use it to track all my Litsy challenges, and also my monthly poetry reading, and a TBR challenge I picked cause it‘s open ended and I want to read the things that have been on my shelves a while, so I‘m tracking that this year. 1mo
Traci1 @IndoorDame thanks! I like the tbr one you're doing. Prompts are fun, but I need to whittle down my physical library, and they don't always coincide with that particularly well. 1mo
Traci1 @IndoorDame and my user name there is traci1974. 1mo
julesG Same @ on SG, too. I'm doing the #BookChain24 and #52bookclub24 challenges at the moment. 1mo
thegirlwiththelibrarybag I‘m @ sharnibee on StoryGraph. I‘m on a mission to whittle down my physical library too - I‘ve just discovered the function to create your own challenges - so I‘ve made one to (hopefully) keep me on track to actually finish the Obernewtyn Chronicles this year. Love the pie graphs! 1mo
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Bluebird
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It‘s definitely me. I enjoyed some of the stories, but there were two major barriers that killed it for me. 1. After reading 40 books in the In Death series narrated by Susan Ericksen, it just felt wrong listening to her read something else. I kept waiting for Eve to appear. 2. I‘m not a big fan of short stories and in the audiobook they all ran together. No definite break to give an indication a new story was starting. I found it disconcerting!

Hooked_on_books Short stories on audio are tough. I‘ve found some that work, but typically print is better. 1mo
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Librarybelle I struggle with short stories 1mo
Deblovestoread I struggle with short stories, too, and can‘t imagine them as audio books. 1mo
TheAromaofBooks No indication of story breaks would be quite disconcerting! 1mo
Bluebird @Hooked_on_books @Librarybelle @Deblovestoread nice to know it‘s not just me. If I try another, I‘ll definitely go for print version instead. 1mo
Bluebird @TheAromaofBooks it was so strange. I can‘t believe the publishers didn‘t think of it. Even a few extra seconds of silence would have worked. It felt like a long run-on sentence—with a topic change in the middle.🤯 1mo
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Soubhiville
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Full disclosure that I‘m rating this only based on the first 3 stories… I‘m just not in a short story mood right now. I did really like the first two though. I have enjoyed all of the Lauren Groff I‘ve read, and I expect I may return to this at some point. #AuthorAMonth

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vlwelser
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This author has a great imagination. This is short stories. It's like fairy tale horror with humor. Which I appreciate.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Pub date was 2/6/24 (oops)
#ARC #Netgalley

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
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