100 Years of The Best American Short Stories | 
“A divorcée fleeing an abusive relationship befriends a Jewish refugee who has escaped a concentration camp in Germany.” This story examines trauma - how it divides us, and how it unites us. I loved that this story was able to accomplish its aim without graphic depictions of traumatic events. Strong writing. I hope to read more by this author.
Started this yesterday and will give myself until the end of the year to finish. This one was selected for 1915-1920.
pickI‘m not a huge short story person, but I found this massive collection to be a great comfort as my anxiety keeps me super distracted. These stories are delightful and honest and funny and reveal so much about the anxieties of the time. A true enjoyment. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I stand here ironing, and what you asked me moves tormented back and forth with the iron." #24in48 #FantasticFirstLines I decided to break up my reading today with a few short stories sprinkled in between, and this also doubles as a #ThrowbackReadathon !❤️
pickVery well-constructed anthology representing the range of the Best American Short Stories collection from 1915-2015. With no duplicates that Updike used for the 1915-2000 anthology. It's so interesting to see a) what stories were "the thing" in a given decade and b) how diversity of writers (race, gender, orientation, etc) expanded especially in the last 30 years. Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor did yeoman's work to get this large volume together.
#bookmail !!!! Used my Amazon gift card and got these great finds that I would never have known existed if it weren't for my Litsy friends! Thank you!
pickWhat I really love about a collection like this is the ability to time travel in the past 100 years. We can see the impacts of World War I, The Great Migration North, Social changes of the 60s, and more. These stores include great names like Sherwood Anderson, John Cheever, Flannery O'Conor, and James Baldwin. Overall, a must read for those looking for a time travel Buddhist cat-nap Vonnegut)
When they meet in the street, male or female, if they‘re getting older they look at each other‘s faces a little ashamed. It‘s clear they want to say, Excuse me, I didn‘t mean to draw attention to mortality and gravity all at once. I didn‘t want to remind you...of our coming eviction, first from liveliness, then from life. To which, most of the time, the friend‘s eyes will courteously reply, My dear, it‘s nothing at all. I hardly noticed.
Sunday evening reading is always better with dachshunds.
Creole began to tell us what the blues were all about. They were not about anything very new. He and his boys up there were keeping it new, at the risk of ruin, destruction, madness, and death, in order to find new ways to make on listen. For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, italways must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.
My #bookstack for #augustofoages #day13 📚 All of these books fit on or in my bedside table. Many of them are only there for comfort, bookish talismans if you will. Notice the lovely green mouth guard, blue plastic water bottle and black hair clippy thingie. Super classy! @TheSpinecrackersBookClub
pickFinally finished my 2016 short stories project! This is a perfect read for those who are not regular short story readers. It has selections and biographies of all the well known authors of the past 100 years.
We were poor and could not afford for her the soil of easy growth...She has much to her and probably nothing will come of it. She is a child of her age, of pression, of war, of fear. --Tillie Olsen, I Stand Before the Iron
Weekend TBR: One more short story to go and a bunch of pre-reading for my Leadership Book Group. Winnie is ready!
Getting ready for May's Short Story Month! Goal is at least one story a day!
