A collection of short stories that does not disappoint. Taking us on a trip down the paths where reality meets imagination and the world becomes a bit weird. On one hand, each of those stories is very normal, things that would totally happen to people every day. But then each of them also has the …
Tom Hanks is one of those lovely and annoying people who are great at what they do. Then they also turn out great at other things they turn to. And we cannot even dislike him for it, because he is the definition of a Hollywood’s nice person. The good guy. Annoyingly this collection of short …
Dive right into the heart of Cuba with this collection of seven short stories.
Short and sweet like a short story, here are a few quotes from Jigs&Reels by Joanne Harris A change of costume here, of location there: stories do not die, but are simply reincarnated every generation or so into a different time and idiom - from Fule’s Gold I cried at the unfairness of it all: …
A collection of quirky short stories, showing how this jewel-like form helps to unleash imagination. You’ll meet nursing home escapees, writers meeting their characters in real life, statisticians winning the lottery, middle-aged witches, and a bit extreme role-play games aficionados. And many many others. I had this book on my shelves for so long I …
Haruki Murakami explores, in seven short stories, the loneliness of men without women
Another book that I got from my mother, she knows I liked Mrożek's short stories when I read some of them for the first time in high school and this collection was just too good to pass. The word for word translation of the title is 'Chocolates for the chairman/CEO' and it is a collection of …
Another one of my Cambridge haul down! I'm doing pretty well with it having so far read five out of seven books I bought then, the only ones left are: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and David Szalay's All That Man Is, so I actually do stand a chance of finishing all of the haul before end of year …
I am definitely not a good reader of blurbs, I don't know how but I managed to miss the fact that this is a collection of short stories, or tales, as Atwood calls them. What is more I didn't realize it until I got to the fourth one as the first three are interconnected, so …
Continue reading Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales – Margaret Atwood
First of all let me thank all my fellow book-bloggers! If it wasn't for you, I would have never found the wonderful world of Shirley Jackson. It was the great reviews of 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle' that tempted me. Few months after reading and loving this book I was on vacation in …
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