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mini haul from Thriftbooks! I mostly shopped their “Secret Shelf” where everything is $2.99. #bookhaul

I know there are people who love McCracken, but I am just not one of them. This is my second go at her, and only because this was on the NBA longlist for fiction, and she is just not for me. And it doesn‘t help that the audio is terrible! I thought the collection I just finished from Te-Ping Chen was SO much better.

The water behind a boat is the deepest wishing well in the world: It has drag and intention. Throw your dreams into it. If they don‘t pull you in and drown you, perhaps they‘ll come true.

These short stories are beautiful and touching. Few characters are recurring in the stories but all the characters are unique & real. These are humorous as well as heart touching. Writing is simple & deep. I specially like the story “ proof” which is about a man with fading memory takes a small trip with his son, and their reflections on both past & present.

#wrapup #May #bookspinbingo #shortstories #readingwithmaja

This is my first Elizabeth McCracken read but it will not be my last. Give me all the books! I loved these oddball short stories so much! Elizabeth McCracken knows how to play with language and play with it she does. These stories are touching, funny, painful, loving, poignant, cringey, raw. Humans at their most vulnerable, families examined and exposed. Truly remarkable. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Im three stories in and I‘m enjoying but not hooked. I will admit my mind is FRAZZLED as I‘ve endured my first real rocket attack since moving here. In the past 12 hours we‘ve had more than a dozen air raid siren alerts and we heard, felt and saw more than 50 explosions from incoming rockets. What you see on TV or read on SM is not the whole story/picture. It‘s anxiety inducing, meant to terrorize, harm & destroy innocent civilians. 🙏🏼☮️🕊

#Aprilwrapup A really good month of reading for me....
Loved so many of these, only a couple were disappointing....
Favorites were all four in the top row, plus the Summer cookbook and Learning to love you more, both great too.
Book club was Fleabag and was fun to discuss! 💕

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Honestly, I could‘ve gone for an entire novel of Jack and Sadie. The episodic stories documenting different pieces of their lives are the standouts here. The interspersed stand alones took me out of the linked stories, but that was clearly intended. I wasn‘t sold on this style at first but it slowly grew on me, and is ultimately effective. Side note: I need to stop listening to short stories on audio. For me, they‘re better in print.

🎧🐾 Foggy, but lovely morning for walking the pupper.

#audiowalk

This is an enjoyable collection from a master of the short story, but while all the stories are good, none are truly great ones that I‘ll be thinking about for years to come.

I think people who are generally not fans of short stories will like the satisfying endings to standalone stories and the five interconnected stories of Jack and Sadie that give a good picture of continuity of their relationship. 👍🏻👍🏻

I loved these loosely interwoven short stories; really enjoyed Thunderstruck a few years ago, and will forever read any short story that McCracken puts forth!

review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#the-souvenir-museum [Sorry I skipped the link the first time around—every place I post needs a different format!]

Just wonderful. Not a dud in the bunch. Endlessly quotable, seamlessly leading me to laugh out loud one minute, then be heartbroken by a single sentence. Some characters feature in a number of stories, some stand alone, but every quirky character stole my heart a little. I‘ve been meaning to read McCracken for a really long time, and thanks to Netgalley, now I can‘t wait to get my hands on more. Loved it💕
@Megabooks Have you read this one Meg?