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plemmdog

Concerning the Future of Souls | Joy Williams

I enjoyed 99 Stories of God more, but this one has some gems, too. And #72 made me guffaw.

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Christine

Best American Short Stories 2024 | Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor

Doing so little reading lately thanks to so much working! 😣 But this lovely bookmail from Mariner certainly makes me hope some free time magically appears soon!! 😍

KadaGul I can soooooo relate 😭😭#Born2ReadForced2work 2w

Christine @KadaGul A too-perfect hashtag! 🙃 I love what I do but still resent the lost reading time. 2w

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Bookwomble

The Origin of the Fays | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marie-Madeleine Lubert

My last post having been an anti-capitalist one, I have to admit that I made a rare purchase from Am@zon for this one 😞
Checking out bibliographic details of the book, I saw that they had a returned copy at a ridiculously low price and, as I definitely wouldn't have paid full price anywhere, I gave in to temptation! 🧚‍♂️🪄
Stableford edited a series of 18th century French contes de fées, which weirdly have overly-sexualised images of ⬇️

Bookwomble ... female fairies on the covers, presumably to appeal to a fanboy Sword and Sorcery market, and probably explaining why this was a return product as the contents are unlikely to deliver on the cover artist's promise. And, actually, there's something fittingly illusory about that, now I come to think of it. (edited) 3w

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The_Penniless_Author

Thrillville, USA: Stories | Taylor Koekkoek

##TLT @dabbe

31 out of 100. Guess I don't have the most thrilling viewing habits.

Three from the list I've been meaning to watch but haven't yet:

🎬 Cat People
🎬 The Asphalt Jungle
🎬 The Big Clock

Tag: @RaeLovesToRead @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @CBee @Ruthiella @IndoorDame

Ruthiella Thanks for the tag. 😊 1mo

RaeLovesToRead Haha, I can confidently say without clicking on this that I will barely have seen any 🤣🤣🤣 1mo

RaeLovesToRead Having taken the survey. 5. Yes. Five. 1mo

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The_Penniless_Author @RaeLovesToRead Yeah, I'd say 5 equals "barely any". ? 1mo

RaeLovesToRead I'm not even 100% sure I've seen Aliens... 1mo

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead You still saw some! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🖤🎃🖤 1mo

dabbe I love THE BIG CLOCK! Charles Laughton is sooooo good! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🖤🎃🖤 1mo

The_Penniless_Author @dabbe He's good in everything. Even the one movie he wrote and directed (Night of the Hunter) is great. 1mo

dabbe @The_Penniless_Author Agree 💯! 1mo

dabbe @The_Penniless_Author I also love he and his wife together in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION. My students read that when we did a big detective unit, and their reward was that movie. They LOVED it! Oh, and she was fantastic in THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, too--another one on this list! 1mo

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Anna40

The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners | Valeria Luiselli

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My favorite stories were Clean Teen by Francisco Gonzalez: a Latino boy raised by his grandmother is abused by his English teacher;Zikora by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie: a woman gives birth to a baby boy while remembering the child‘s father (and “their perfect relationship”) who now ghosts her; Face Time by Lorrie Moore: death and illness during the Covid pandemic.

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Kazzie

After the Funeral and Other Stories | Tessa Hadley

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This was great! Ordinary people captured honestly, with their fears and joys and grief. Cohesive collection, with themes of absent mothers, mothering, aging, and love lost

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Pinta

Beautiful Days: Stories | Zach Williams

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Anxiety, menace, secrets. Stories with their own unpredictable logic, weird & wonderful. Uneven collection, but wow are the good ones good. Beautiful defamiliarization of ordinary actions. Attempts at connection, mindless work, masculinity, anxious parents, colluding colleagues, surreal conversations, abandoned theme parks. 2024

18 “The three of us were converging into a singularity. And that was impossible – the building couldn‘t sustain it.”

sarahbarnes Great review! 2mo

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