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I read at least one short story a day, every day, and it‘s been a long time since I read anything as dull as THE OLD CAPITAL‘s premiere offering. It‘s one of those “writer writes about writers writing” things—always a hard sell for me—and while I very much liked a page or two near the end, it didn‘t do anything to redeem the basic setup.

This doesn‘t bode well for the rest of the collection. Damn. I was so excited when I requested it.

My last two holds came in right before the library closed on Friday, and I went there first thing this morning to get ‘em before the two older ones expired. Yay! I‘m excited to finally read THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA, which I‘ve been suspending for a few months now while I focused on TBR reduction, and I‘m so pleased I came across THE OLD CAPITAL when I searched for short fiction collections for Non-American February.