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Last Evenings on Earth

Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño

March 10, 2022 by Halbs Leave a Comment

“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.” Last Evenings on Earth is a dreamlike collection of 14 short stories by Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. I write “middling” with affection; many of the stories in this collection are semi-autobiographical in spirit if not fact and the author focuses on what it’s like to be a writer of low notoriety. Many of the stories include petty jealousies and insecurities amongst artists in social […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Roberto Bolano

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Roberto Bolano ·
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If you ever wanted to hear LeVar Burton say the phrase “sweet and salty love”, then this is the collection for YOU!

The Visit by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Black Pages by Nnedi Okorafor

2043...A Merman I Should Turn to Be by Nisi Shawl

These Alien Skies by C.T. Rwizi

Clap Back by Nalo Hopkinson

We Travel the Spaceways by Victor LaValle

March 2, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

You can hear LeVar say lots of other things, if you like! You can also hear Nyambi Nyambi, Naomi Ackie, Indya Moore, Adenrele Ojo, and Brian Tyree Henry! The six-entry Black Stars collection is another new(ish) group of short stories available from Amazon Originals. They are available on both kindle and through audible, and if you are interested in diving into this collection then I highly recommend taking the audio route! Every story is enhanced by the audio performances, and I am sure that I rated […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Adenrele Ojo, african diaspora, amazon original stories, Amazon Originals, andtheIToldYouSos, Black Stars, Black Stars collection, black voices, Brian Tyree Henry, C.T. Rwizi, canadian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, djinn, feminism, Indya Moore, Islam, LeVar Burton, lgtbqia, Nalo Hopkinson, Naomi Ackie, nisi shawl, Nnedi Okorafor, Nyambi Nyambi, religious extremism, technology, timbuktu, tradition, Victor LaValle

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Adenrele Ojo, african diaspora, amazon original stories, Amazon Originals, andtheIToldYouSos, Black Stars, Black Stars collection, black voices, Brian Tyree Henry, C.T. Rwizi, canadian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, djinn, feminism, Indya Moore, Islam, LeVar Burton, lgtbqia, Nalo Hopkinson, Naomi Ackie, nisi shawl, Nnedi Okorafor, Nyambi Nyambi, religious extremism, technology, timbuktu, tradition, Victor LaValle ·
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

February 23, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

I loved each of these finely drawn, often heart breaking vignettes of Black women. When we think of secret lives, we often think of sex – and there’s plenty of that in this book, but as in life, sex means so much more for each of these women. There’s a daughter, stealing moments of pleasure with a married man in a hospice parking lot while their mothers are inside. There’s a daughter, learning how to take crumbs and make them into a whole damn pie. […]

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Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Deesha Philyaw

booktrovert's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Deesha Philyaw ·
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Echos of Proulx and Carver In Debut Short Story Collection

The Man With Eight Pairs of Legs by Leslie Kirk Campbell

February 9, 2022 by MG Dietzel Leave a Comment

I didn’t know what to expect when I started the debut short story collection The Man With Eight Pairs of Legs by San Francisco author Leslie Kirk Campbell. One of the blurbs on the front from Anthony Doerr mentioned it was “sexy” and another said it reminded them of Carson McCullers so I was definitely intrigued. After finishing it I can say it delivered on the big promises of the blurbs, which isn’t always the case. The title story of a double amputee with eight […]

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: Leslie Kirk Campbell

MG Dietzel's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Short Stories · Tags: Leslie Kirk Campbell ·
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She of the Diamante Garters and Pearl-Handled Pistol

The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions by Kelly Greenwood

February 3, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

In this collection of detective stories, Phryne Fisher recovers missing jewelry and missing people, thwarts blackmailers, and cracks codes, all while remaining as cool and unflappable as ever. I adore the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. The author wrote a short note at the beginning of the book about how Miss Fisher came to be – she wanted to write a sort of female James Bond, with the glamour and the adventure and the romance, except better than James Bond because her books are not sexist […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories Tagged With: ARC, Australia, Kelly Greenwood, Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, mystery, NetGalley, short stories

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories · Tags: ARC, Australia, Kelly Greenwood, Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, mystery, NetGalley, short stories ·
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The Big Book of Ghost Stories

The Big Book of Ghost Stories by Otto Penzler editor

February 2, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Another of the Otto Penzler books of collected stories, this book takes on the ghost story in fiction of the last 150 or so years. So, for example, we’re not getting Hamlet or The Castle of Otranto or anything like that. The collection still mostly focuses on stories written for magazine publication primarily, and this means tha a lot of stories were originally published in various pulp magazines in the 1930s or thereabouts, but different from the more noir collections, we end up with a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Otto Penzler editor

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:50 · Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Otto Penzler editor ·
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