shortfiction

Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives: Stories | Brad Watson

bailed

Only read 3 stories and had to stop. Boring, ending made no sense and didn't want to read any more.

For the rest of my review, visit my Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/h3BCV5VifIM

Enjoy!

willaful A shame, such a cool title. 2mo

35 likes1 comment

shawnmooney

The Collected Short Stories | Jean Rhys

https://youtu.be/tKiPy5oTHRY

Introduction
A special request from the wonderful Danny Ramadan
Mystery guest
Week in Review
Patreon news
The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys
Luck by David Carpenter
Babbacombe's by Susan Scarlett
The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Itō
She's a Lamb! by Meredith Hambrock

22 likes

Lcsmcat

Miss Muriel and Other Stories | Ann Petry

pick

Like with most short story collections, I liked some more than others. So many were heartbreaking. But also full of love of family. Sony‘s Gone might have been my favorite, but The Bones of Louella Brown was also a favorite. #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3mo

42 likes1 comment

Lcsmcat

Miss Muriel and Other Stories | Ann Petry

Started my #bookspin today! @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3mo

33 likes1 comment

SomedayAlmost

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories | Tananarive Due

It‘s another great day to buy spec fic by African-American authors. #shortfiction #blackauthors

14 likes

psalva

Cat Stories | Diana Secker Tesdell

Another miserable story from this so far dreary and depressing anthology. “I See You, Bianca,” by Maeve Brennan was essentially 11 pages of description of the MC‘s NYC apartment. There happened to be a cat who goes missing and the MC doesn‘t seem that bothered really. That‘s the plot. What a downer! I‘m very nervous to continue with this collection. If the next story is more of the same I may just shelve this for now.
#catsoflitsy

19 likes

psalva

Cat Stories | Diana Secker Tesdell

My new nighttime short story collection. Kicking it off with “The Islands,” by Alice Adams. Quite a melancholy start, a story about the life and loss of a tailless Manx cat named Pink, named after the MC‘s friend Zoe Pinkerton. Zoe‘s path through life mirrors Pink‘s, both leaving a hole behind in their place. I‘m nervous that every story in this collection will be a downer, but I hope I am surprised. Finn and Jack pictured offering moral support.

psalva #catsoflitsy 8mo

dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🖤 8mo

18 likes2 comments

Rachiiebookdragon

In Bloom | Paul Tremblay

so-so

An ok novella

Read for reading challenges

3.75/5

7 likes

dabbe

The Naval Treaty | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin
#TheNavalTreaty

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

Daisey, erzascarletbookgasm, CogsOfEncouragement, AnneCecilie, Born.A.Reader, Aimeesue, Larkken, Librarybelle, mom2bugnbee, Read4life, StayCurious, Sace, CatLass007, Mollyanna, curiouserandcurioser, eeclayton, dabbe, IndoorDame, kelli7990, TheAromaofBooks, 5feet.of.fury, Tineke, Blackink_WhitePaper, RayHallucinogen, Pageturner1, PageShifter, AllDebooks, AnnR, kimrenee, aroyse, CrystalE02

Librarybelle I think the mention of the wires and sending out info was mine to a degree. Harrison as the culprit made sense to me, but the storing of such vital documents was a tad sloppy—I know it was his bedroom initially, but it seemed too neat of a way to uncover the documents. We‘ve discussed Holmes‘ nonchalance when dealing with the culprits. He‘s certainly putting a lot of hope on the police to capture a guy who snuck into a room hard to penetrate. 8mo

IndoorDame I was super confused about the rose. We get a lot of missing details in these stories but we don‘t usually get red herrings. And letting him go free seemed nuts. This wasn‘t a minor crime!!!! He‘s right the Foreign Office might not have wanted publicity, but I‘m sure they had ways around that. 8mo

CrystalE02 Yeah, Holmes talking about the rose had me thinking has he lost his ever loving mind. I was also mentally yelling at Holmes for letting him go. Of course I couldn't scream out loud or I would have woke up the entire household last night. 8mo

See All 11 Comments

Cuilin @IndoorDame I was so disappointed that the rose never featured in the solution. Why wax poetic about it at all? 8mo

Cuilin At this stage in our reading, I really wasn‘t surprised that Holmes let the culprit go. This is what the fourth or fifth time we‘ve encountered this? I initially thought the uncle had some involvement in it because to so trust your nephew, but then immediately suspect him didn‘t add up to me. 8mo

dabbe @IndoorDame @Librarybelle @CrystalE02 @Cuilin And he went into the room with a knife! Doesn't that mean he was intending to kill if Phelps or anyone got in his way? This is one criminal that I just can't believe Holmes let go free!

(edited) 8mo

dabbe @IndoorDame @Librarybelle @CrystalE02 @Cuilin

My only thought about the rose episode is that maybe Holmes was stalling for time so that he could look around the room to see where the plans could be hidden. He couldn't go down on his knees with his magnifying glass (a la “The Speckled Band“) because people were in the room, so maybe this was his only way to have a looksie. 8mo

IndoorDame @dabbe I certainly assumed so… I can think of half a dozen other things I‘d try to wrench a window open with before trying a knife 8mo

dabbe I also wondered about the copying of such important documents by hand. They were primitive, but methods of copying documents did exist in that era. You would think that an outfit of the size and prestige of the British government would have invested in these, rather than relying on clerks to copy documents by hand in the middle of the night when nobody is there.

And, how could the side street be left UNLOCKED for anyone to come in? 8mo

Librarybelle That‘s true about the copying of the documents, @dabbe . I had not thought about that, unless it was that top secret a select few had to do the copying in the dead of night??? I also thought the rose musings was to buy time for Holmes to observe the room and draw conclusions. 8mo

dabbe @Librarybelle Good point. The documents may have been so secret that the risk of anyone seeing Percy on the machine might have been too risky. 8mo

39 likes11 comments

Welcome to Litsy!

Trending Hashtags

Trending Books