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“She would’ve been a good woman,” said The Misfit, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” (Bingo!)

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

October 30, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

This is my first O’Connor, which seems strange as a Catholic raised in the American South (maybe if I had gone to a catholic school?) and it is both fascinating and darkly comic, which I don’t know that I was ready for. O’Connor is asking the reader what does it mean to be good? What does it mean to be moral? Those questions are the heart of A Good Man is Hard to Find, and then doubled down by making it the title piece of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: A Good Man is Hard to Find, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Flannery O'Connor, short story, TBR

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: A Good Man is Hard to Find, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Flannery O'Connor, short story, TBR ·
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Bingo #3 With a Banned Short Story

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

October 29, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

In a bit of bingo logistics, I decided a couple short stories might be in order to fill in as many remaining squares as I could. With that in mind I went down the list of things I’ve been meaning to read anyway and came across “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson which has quite the history of making people question its place in front of readers at all. What I didn’t know was just how short it really is – its only 3,773 words long! […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: banned books, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Shirley Jackson, short story, The Lottery

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: banned books, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Shirley Jackson, short story, The Lottery ·
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Miss Marple: the Complete Short Stories

Miss Marple Solves It Again (and Again and Again)

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie

September 22, 2019 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

Keeping up my summer tradition of an Agatha Christie re-read I picked up Miss Marple: the Complete Short Stories. Hercule Poirot has always been my favorite Christie sleuth – it must be the Virgo in me that loves his precise mode of detection. I like a few of the Miss Marple novels, but wasn’t as familiar with the short stories. What’s great about Christie is that her books, no matter how intricately plotted, are (like Stephen King’s) character-driven. So, even if you have read them before […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #mystery, agatha christie, miss marple, short story

xoxoxoe's CBR11 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #mystery, agatha christie, miss marple, short story ·
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“The mind has a mind of its own.” (CBR11 Bingo)

A Mind of Her Own by Paula McLain, Hillary Huber (narrator)

September 10, 2019 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

This one was okay and therefore 2 stars. I don’t often rate books 1 or 2 stars, at this point in my Cannonball history my to read list is pretty well-honed in on books that I’m going to have a good response to (making them 3 stars or higher). But, back in the spring when I still had an Audible subscription this was one of their free Originals so I scooped it up. I’m not sad I chose it, I just wish it knew what […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History Tagged With: A Mind of Her Own, Audible Original, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Hillary Huber, history/schmistory, Paula McLain, read women, short story

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:45 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History · Tags: A Mind of Her Own, Audible Original, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Hillary Huber, history/schmistory, Paula McLain, read women, short story ·
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An Eden of dangerous things.

Florida by Lauren Groff

June 23, 2019 by Leedock Leave a Comment

I don’t generally read a lot of short story collections. When I do, I prefer the ones that have some kind of thread that tie them together. This book fit that particular bill. While each of the stories in this collection have something to do with the state of Florida, the thread that I found the most intriguing was parenthood. What does it mean to parent? How much of one’s identity is tied up in the role of parent? Is there a limit to what […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: cbr11, Fiction, lauren groff, short story

Leedock's CBR11 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: cbr11, Fiction, lauren groff, short story ·
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What a Great Short Story!

Death on the Edge by Sara Paretsky

May 3, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

I have to say this was fantastic! The only reason why I didn’t give it 5 stars is that I guessed what happened with the mystery about who wrote the essay. I loved the callback to a past case of VI’s and her annoying nemesis from that one popping up in this one (Marcena Love). In “Death on the Edge” VI gets involved in introducing Marcena to her old school in order to talk to a teacher who is concerned about an essay that was […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Short Stories Tagged With: Death on the Edge, Sara Paretsky, short story

Classic's CBR11 Review No:96 · Genres: Mystery, Short Stories · Tags: Death on the Edge, Sara Paretsky, short story ·
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