Fall Book Spines #deweys24hourreadathon #deweysoct25
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Fall Book Spines #deweys24hourreadathon #deweysoct25
On way to go kidsit my grandnephew! Very possible that I will soon be reading a kids picture book of a green truck instead 🚜
#Oct2025 Book97 #ShortStories
pickThe three short stories in this collection are sad and strange, the protagonists living liminal existences which alienate them from the rest of humanity. There's a feel of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" in the changes that the characters undergo: surreal and tragic.
The longest (but still fairly short) story, "Nami, Who Wanted to Get Hit (and Eventually Succeeded)" is the saddest, dealing with bullying, child sexual exploitation and abuse, ⬇️
"Asa lived with her mother in a small rented apartment."
#FirstLineFridays @Shybookowl
And now, for something completely different!
Three short stories, large font to make it look more substantial than it is 🧐, but it looks pretty, so, like Dr. Frank N. Furter, we'll forgive it.
I bought this RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institute) bookmark today. It doesn't fit the criteria for #BookmarkMatching , but there it is, anyway 🔖
#doublespin for this month was 5 more short stories in this anthology… I‘m up to more modern stories now and finding them more enjoyable than some of the older stuff!
pickLily King has officially been added to my list of favorite authors.
This was a great collection of short stories.
pickFinally getting to this book of short stories after buying it for #ReadingOceania last year. Only the first story took place in Tonga, but I enjoyed all of them. They were about different things but I liked how they embraced nature and took place in unique locations.
pickBertino‘s follow up to Beautyland is this very interesting collection of stories, ranging from realistic to heavy on the magical realism. I think it‘s a really good collection and can‘t point to a single story I didn‘t like.
