There’s a stand up comedian who had a bit about how boring it is to hear about other peoples’ dreams, how the description is always surreal to the teller but just illogical to the listener; the punch line being “there’s a reason you were asleep for this.” There’s a reason your books were inspired by rather than directly published from your diaries, sedaris. It kind of hurt to write that. I love David Sedaris, I love his writing. I often say of writers I love […]
Strange weather, good stories
To say Joe Hill is the next Stephen King is no surprise: he’s King’s son, after all. And it says great things about him because Hill writes fantastic horror stories (long and short), the same way his father did. But it also means that any time I read a book by Hill, aside from the absolutely brilliant Locke and Key series, I’m also wondering when he’ll find his own voice, and branch out a bit more from his father’s footsteps. That being said, Hill is […]
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
I think it would be fair to say that Uncle Stevie and I have an understanding. He writes, I’m a constant reader, and that’s that. And I’ve been known to reread some of the things that he’s written many times. Even when the stories are upsetting or dark or scary, there’s something comforting about them for me. Maybe because I started reading them at a really early age (seriously, way too early….what exactly was going on in the 1980s?), his writing is sort of a […]
Sci-Fi Short Stories hit and miss
I really enjoyed Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival which led me to tracking down the source material, a short story titled Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. This was originally published in 1998 in Starlight 2 and then again as the titular short story in a collection of eight short stories by Chiang in 2002. It begins strongly with Tower of Babylon, about building a tower to reach the heavens that has an interesting philosophical bent. This is followed by another intriguing story titled Understand, detailing the progress of […]
He opened his eyes, and yes, there it was, the perfect knowledge: Anything was possible for anyone.”
Elizabeth Strout takes her background characters from My Name is Lucy Barton and brings them to the forefront in these interconnected short stories. You don’t need to have read Lucy Barton to understand and enjoy Anything is Possible but I do think it will help flesh out some of these essays. Lucy, who doesn’t narrate any of these stories, left her small town and eventually became a writer in New York. Several of these stories connect back to Lucy who has a memoir published in […]
If you’re going to judge a book by its cover, this should be the one.
As an 8-time Cannonballer, I can’t believe this is the first Leigh Bardugo book I’ve ever picked up. I think I’ve meant to read some of her stuff before…but I guess life just got in my way. I first heard about this book when the great Rainbow Rowell was raving about its utter gorgeousness on her Instagram. I had never heard the term “progressive illustrations” before, so my interest was quickly piqued. (FYI, a progressive illustration is exactly what it sounds like. In this book […]
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