I had to take this collection back to the library before I got through it, but I read enough of these stories to know that I must read more Mavis Gallant short stories! I can‘t believe I haven‘t before now. They are brilliant.
Reading too many books at once so nothing gets finished quickly!
I'm enjoying The Idiot, but the ebook was taken back by the library so now I have to read the paperback, which'll take longer. I'm about halfway through HF for #RiseUpReads I finished TDoE for #Netherlands #FoodandLit. Ooft, what a book, what a surprise ending. I'm working through TSoAwM and forsee a Met Museum hunt in my future. Tagged book was for a global reading goal. #Bolivia
pickA divine collection of short stories. ✨️ I absolutely adored the perspectives from a host of diverse voices and experiences. With a touch of haunting and the surreal, this was the perfect book to use as a detox from some longer novels I've been wrapped up in. And... can we talk about this cover!? Gorgeous!
#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude
Feeling a little frazzled in the New Year? I would give Lex Amor a listen. She's a London rapper/producer/DJ with deft lyricism and creative beats. The music is slow and hypnotic but won't put you to sleep because there's too much going on. She has a monthly email newsletter where she shares playlists, poetry, and words of wisdom. The image is the cover art from her first album, and she just released her 2nd this fall.
so-soThere‘s something stingy and mean in this collection, characters putting up barriers in self-preservation mode. But a few lovely ones: tender tourist in Hyderabad, urban tent housing vs. luxury safari tents, sentimental AI in Mall of America, Paul Yoon‘s mini-epic “Valley of the Moon,” Lori Ostlund‘s bubble family in “Just Another Family.” Preferred 2023 collection edited by Min Jin Lee. 2024
2025 reading challenge:
50 books
Book buying limited to non-fiction and rarer books
@ReadingRachael , thank you so much for my wonderful #JolabokaflodSwap gifts!
I‘m so happy that you chose this book for me as the publisher (Handheld Press) is shutting down and it will soon be out of print again. I love the pretty bookmark and the chocolates are perfect! Merry Christmas to you! 😘
And a big thank you to @MaleficentBookDragon for hosting, as always! 😘
#JolabokaflodSwap24 #JS2024
pickI thought Hadley is not for me,then I listened to the most recent The New Yorker Fiction Podcast: Savaş reads& discusses Hadley‘s An Abduction & her thoughts on Hadley‘s writing, in particular what happens inside of her characters made me want to read her again. I picked up this short story collection & am still not getting the genius of After the funeral which I had first read in the New Yorker but I loved Old Friends, Mia & My mother‘s wedding.
