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1. It‘s not that I don‘t read them, I just don‘t often specifically seek them out. I have found some to be amazing, better than many novels. Tagged a favorite. ❤️🥰❤️
2. Not unless you count readalongs.

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I LOVED this book! Each short is a window into the hearts and minds of the colorful characters that only O. Henry could bring to life so well with so few words. I‘m not normally a short story reader, but that‘s definitely changing.
It‘s hard to choose, but my absolute favs in no particular order: The Pimienta Pancakes, The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson, Cupid A La Carte, The Caballero‘s Way, The Missing Chord, and A Chaparral Prince.

I‘m really loving this book. Henry‘s prose is so captivating. The dialog is written in such a way that you can perfectly hear the accents of each character. I love his way of building sentences that describe characters without conventional means. He hasn‘t told me word for word what this woman looks like in this paragraph, yet I have a vivid image of her in my mind now.

“If you want to instigate the art of manslaughter just shut two men up in a eighteen-by-twenty-foot cabin for a month. Human nature won‘t stand it.”

I feel very fortunate to have experienced a prolonged quarantine in today‘s world of Internet, Amazon delivery, and Doordash rather than the world of the late 1800‘s. 😅 Online ordering has certainly staved off the manslaughter... 🤭🤫

It's a historical crime novel, based on the early life of O. Henry and an actual series of killings that took place in Austin, Texas while Will Porter was just a young man trying to figure out his way in the world. The mystery is intriguing, the characters and setting feel authentic, but for me the star is the well-crafted prose, which always knows exactly what it's doing and how to do it.

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I guess this book (a series of short stories all taking place on the same fictional island) is the closest thing to a novel O Henry wrote. Some stories were so hilarious and wonderful; some were kinda boring. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💫

4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️#ohenry #thelastleaf