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Well, this was quite dark. Keegan read from this at my local bookstore last fall and called out an audience member who was trying to photograph her during the reading. i love her writing. She almost fills the void Munro left, when she retired. looking forward to more.

This was blurbed by Adam Johnson, the author of my favorite short story collection Fortune Smiles, so I knew it would be good. Knight does a beautiful job of highlighting Mobile, Alabama and its bay around the time of the Deep Horizon oil spill. If you enjoy Southern regional fiction (like me), this collection is for you! There‘s a funny story about a foiled home burglary and another about young love on the boat docks that rings so true.

This is a fine collection of about 40 short stories Fitzgerald wrote with a brief introduction when and where they were published and a few lines with fascinating facts about them. I loved Winter Dreams written while he was planning The Great Gatsby and The Swimmers which Fitzgerald described as “the hardest story I ever wrote.”

Successful #fleamarkethaul!

I don‘t think this edition is the same as the one tagged, as there is no author listed.

"When I was a little girl, I dreamed of monsters."

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Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence.

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!). Feel free to join in!

#ABookADay2024

The second collection of Link‘s stories I‘ve read, and I really enjoy her brand of strangeness. Like, casually the characters in a story are superheroes, or aliens, or there are ghosts or magic, but the fact of these things brilliantly isn‘t the focus of the stories, it just makes them even more interesting. I had my favorites in this collection, but overall a strong pick. Thanks @IuliaC for the reminder that I wanted to read this. 😊

My library holds came in and so my weekend is set. A bit of a contrast between Carter's fairy tales and Betsy-Tacy's small town Minnesota.

I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude.

From "Johnny Mnemonic"
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