The Wonder Garden

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The Wonder Garden | Lauren Acampora

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The Wonder Garden | Lauren Acampora

#TBRtemptation post! A short story collection. John collects himself at a house-showing for a beautiful home before his clients arrive. A man strikes a deal to be closer to his wife for a few seconds. A young soon-to-be mother watches her husband quit 20 years in advertising at the beckoning of his animal spirit. An artist is commissioned by new neighbors to make something different. All are Old Cranbury residents. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Notafraidofwords Ahhhhhh I totally loved this!!!!!! 8y

ValerieAndBooks Looks good! Your fault 😊! 8y

LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 8y

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KatyAliceReads

The Wonder Garden | Lauren Acampora

One of my Top Books of 2016

An all time favorite photo.

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britt_brooke Beautiful photo. 📷💕 8y

Megabooks Great book!! 8y

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JenniferJarrell

The Wonder Garden | Lauren Acampora

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Maybe my favorite short story collection of all time, though I don't even know that it's fair to call it a short story collection. It's more like chapters of the same book devoted to the POV of each of the inhabitants of Edward Scissorhand's village. Amazing slice of dark, twisted suburbia. Out of 5 stars it gets 6.

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Megabooks

The Wonder Garden | Lauren Acampora

Someone else posted her Goodreads challenge, and I realized I met mine yesterday! Yay! Follow me on there if you're interested in longer reviews or just want a follow back. 😃👍🏻📖

MMFinck See you on GR! :) 8y

Kathrin Wow... That is awesome! I am pretty close to my goal too, but my goal was "just" 75 books. 8y

BookishFeminist That's awesome! Keep up the great work! I am nearing my 100 book goal, too. :) 8y

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MMFinck I can't fig it out! Grr. Will try to find you on there from my laptop. If you get to it first, I'm MM Finck. 8y

LauraBrook Congrats! Will figure out how to best post mine here too. 8y

OneLitChick Dang! That's awesome! 8y

Sue Yay, good work!! 8y

ReadingEnvy I passed my 150 goal sometime this month but it's a false goal really. I want to leave room for slim poetry and mighty tomes! I like how GoodReads also will let you compare your years in pages, not just books. 8y

Gezemice That's really awesome! Way to go! 8y

LitHousewife Way to go!!!! 8y

Megabooks @MMF I tried too. I think I have to be on my computer and not an app. ☹️ 8y

Megabooks @ReadingEnvy Congratulations! 👊🏻 8y

laurenm Yay! I just increased my challenge from 30 to 40 books today. At 22 now. Love this challenge! 8y

HeatherBookNerd I set a reading goal as usual this year, but so far this year, most of my books have been 700-800 pages, so I'm behind. Maybe I should have set a number of pages goal! 8y

Megabooks @HeatherBookNerd That sounds like a good idea. My average is a little over 300 pgs/book, so much shorter! 8y

denise Awesome, congrats!! 👏👏👏 8y

MLVReads Way to go!!! 8y

Tee Congrats!! 8y

SaraFair Giirrrllll, that's alotta books! 8y

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Megabooks

The Wonder Garden | Lauren Acampora

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4.5 🌟 Acampora deftly weaves the residents of small NYC suburb together through marriage, affairs, jobs & friendship. It's amazing that a year passes naturally from the 1st to last story. Each story is told from a single perspective, but other residents pop up. Her characters are amazing & natural.

LinaLovesLit Look at those flowers! 😍 8y

Notafraidofwords Have you read A Year Of Perfect Happiness by Haynes? 8y

Megabooks @Notafraidofwords No, but it sounds great! Unfortunately my library doesn't have it - not even to request. It's too expensive from Amazon, but I'm going to keep an eye out. Thanks! 8y

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Megabooks Thanks @Attila 💐 8y

Notafraidofwords @Ebooksandcooks no problem. I had seen a 1.99 deal on Amazon for it. If I see it again, I shall let you know. 8y

Megabooks @Notafraidofwords Thanks! Yeah, it's $12 now. A little too rich for my blood. 😉 8y

Notafraidofwords @Ebooksandcooks I'm the queen of bargain. I know 😀 8y

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Megabooks

The Wonder Garden | Lauren Acampora

There are only 2 things that can tear me away from a good book.
1. Star Trek 🖖🏻
2. The Week
The Week is a distillation of top national and international stories written from both sides of the aisle, plus tech, science, BOOK REVIEWS, TV, food, lifestyle, etc. Awesome! I ❤️ it!

SusanInTiburon I take The Week too, and I like it a lot. 8y

Laura317 What is the Week? I've not heard of this. 8y

Dogearedcopy Oh! I've been looking for something like The Week (articles from both sides!) very nice, though I wish they had a digital-only subscription available :-/ 8y

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Megabooks @Dogearedcopy They do on Kindle! That's what I'm reading it on now. I don't know about other platforms. 8y

Carol A lot of public libraries carry subscriptions to The Week, too. It's not the best option but if someone wanted to read a few before buying that's the way to go. 😁 8y

BookishFeminist This looks great! I've never heard of this magazine before, but I love me some politics so I'll have to check it out. 8y

Megabooks @BookishFeminist I first read about it in Lisa Genova's books. It has 17-18 pages of national and international news. The rest of the 39-43 pgs is tech, science, books, finance, obits, lifestyle, etc. This issue has an extra 3 pgs of books! 😃👍🏻 It's the best of the week's news in 1 magazine. 8y

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The Wonder Garden | Lauren Acampora

One book. One town. Interwoven. Two very different characters. You'll have to read the book to see how they're connected. 😉

I'm really enjoying this. Definitely a good use of my settlement money! 📖👍🏻

LauraJ "Deliciously creepy"!? Bring it on! 8y

Megabooks @LauraJ It's definitely a good collection. Very deft weaving and clues all along yet not a mystery. 8y

Notafraidofwords I love this book! It's my favorite interwoven collection of stories. Sooo good! 8y

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Megabooks @Notafraidofwords Do we have identical taste in books? Because I'm beginning to think so! 8y

Notafraidofwords @Ebooksandcooks lol I think so too. But I think you like short stories more. 8y

Megabooks @Notafraidofwords I definitely go through short story phases! I like a good novel or memoir, too. Other than memoirs, I don't read a ton of non-fiction. I'm much pickier with non-fiction! 8y

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Megabooks

The Wonder Garden | Lauren Acampora

HELP Litsy friends! I wanted to do this book for short story week on my blog, but someone checked it out! So I need recommendations. Requirements:

1. Literary fiction
2. Female writer
3. Available as an ebook
4. Short story collection

Thanks!!!! 😃👍🏻

Megabooks I may still buy The Wonder Garden, but I want to know what else is out there! 9y

GuiltyFeat Olive Kitteridge, Binocular Vision, Victory over Japan.

Victory Over Japan

CherylDeFranceschi Anything by Ellen Gilchrist 9y

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Jenshootsweddings Shirley Jackson is my usual go to for short stories, but they may not be short enough 9y

shawnmooney A throwback to the 80s but my favorite short story collection by Carol Shields is Various Miracles. On iBooks for sure, probably elsewhere.

Various Miracles: Stories

Sara_Planz American Housewife by Helen Ellis 9y

BarbaraTheBibliophage Kelly Link! 9y

OneLitChick Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny 9y

OneLitChick Boys and Girls Like You and Me by Aryn Kyle 9y

LauraJ Kelly Link or Amelia Gray

Gutshot: Stories

Karli Unearned pleasures, Ursula Hegi 9y

Weakwarm Kelly Link for sure. 9y

LitHousewife American Housewife!!! Helen Ellis is the author. 9y

courtney I loved the Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender and American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell 9y

RealLifeReading Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women 9y

jmkeene Love both Kelly Link and Helen Ellis. Also see about Ann Beattie. She was a big name in the 1970s, but I love her stories now. Burning House is my favorite collection.

Burning House

Chessa Are you on NetGalley? I just requested (and was granted) the book Of This New World by Allegra M. Hyde - a collection of short stories all about Utopias. I'm a huge utopia/dystopia sucker! Might be an option for you?

Of This New World

Lindy Have you already read Atwood's Stone Mattress? It's outstanding.

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Mayread Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, and Aimee Bender all have multiple SS collections on e-book. Also Lucia Berlin & Clarice Lispector.

The Color Master: Stories

CharissaWeaksAuthor Kelly Link! 9y

mauveandrosysky

Refund: Stories

Megabooks Wow! Thank you all so much. So far I've checked out American Housewife, Single Carefree Mellow, The State We're In, and Refund! Litsy crew comes through again! Keep them coming though. I am saving this. I LOVE short stories! 9y

JessReads This was my favorite short story collection that I've read in a long time!

Some Possible Solutions: Stories

Megabooks @JessReads I've asked the library for that one, but they haven't gotten it. ☹️ 9y

BookishFeminist Second the Kelly Link recommendations, but also

Thunderstruck & Other Stories

BookishFeminist Also this tagged book is AMAZING, plus any short story collection by Margaret Atwood

The Thing Around Your Neck

bookloversnevergotobedalone

Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Megabooks @BookishFeminist I hadn't heard of Thunderstruck and I didn't know Adichie's new book was a collection. Cool! 9y

BookishFeminist Yes, and they're both wonderful! So I hope you get to them sometime even if they aren't for this blog post :) 9y

steph_hashes_tags Pretty sure Helen Oyeyemi's recent short story collection will fit the bill!

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

moranadatter Adding my voice to the Kelly Link recs. She was the first writer to come to mind. 9y

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