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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Ways My Blogging/Review Style Has Changed Over Time. This topic needed a lot more thought than I had time for so I’ve come up with one of my own. I’ve seen a few mentions of May being International/National Short Story Month, although I haven’t been able to find a reliable source to substantiate this. Regardless of whether it’s ‘official’ or not, here are ten short story collections I’ve read and enjoyed. Links from the title will take you to my review.
- normal rules don’t apply by Kate Atkinson
- In This Ravishing World by Nina Schuyler
- Byron and Shelley by Glenn Haybittle
- Music of the Night edited by Martin Edwards
- Liberty Terrace by Madeleine D’Arcy
- Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
- The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories edited Margaret Jull Costa
- A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason
- Runaway by Alice Munro
- In A German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
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Short story collections can be so fun to read!
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Short story collections can be hard to rate and review. You may be lucky and love all of the stories, or worse, you find only one or two that you adore and the rest are just ok.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/the-ls-have-it-ten-titles-starting-with-l/
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Absolutely, they can be very uneven. I find collections with interconnected stories most appealing.
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I love short stories! Someday I’ll read a Kate Atkinson book.
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Her collection that’s in my list was a book club pick and got positive comments from almost everyone.
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That’s a very good topic! I struggle with short stories–I’ll look into these books. Thank you! FYI: I went rogue this week, too.
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I don’t read that many. I had to delve quite a long way back to get ten! I find I enjoy most ones that have interconnected stories.
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I’m not much for short stories, but some of these collections do sound interesting. I might have to check them out.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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I don’t read them often either. I find I enjoy most collections where there are interconnections between stories.
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I wasn’t overly impressed with Alice Munroe’s stories, but I think that they probably didn’t age all that well. Not all contemporary fiction does. But I love a good short story.
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