Tag: short stories
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Book Review: The Body in the Bath by Ragnar Jónasson
First of all, I read A LOT of mysteries. I’ve read almost the entire canon of Agatha Christie. Sherlock Holmes short stories, ditto. I taught And Then There Were None and The Hound of the Baskervilles for over fifteen years in middle school English, turning non-readers into readers, into mystery-loving Anglophiles. My Kindle library is…
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Book Review: Food Person by Adam D. Roberts
I picked this up from the Librarian’s Choice shelves at my local public library (shout out to Aspen Hill Library in Montgomery County, Maryland). Two things caught my attention. First of all, that cover is an eye catcher for sure. The second thing was the starburst blurb on the front cover, “A savory meal of…
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Book Review: Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith, is a Scottish legal scholar turned prolific author of fiction. He was born in present day Zimbabwe and grew up there, starting his education at Christian Brothers College, before moving to Scotland to study law at the University of Edinburgh where he earned a LLB and a PhD. He returned to Africa…
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Book Review: Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld
Years ago I picked up an early book by this author, Curtis Sittenfeld, which was a collection of short stories called You Think It, I’ll Say It, published in May, 2018. I read about half the stories in that collection and returned it to the library. This week, I decided to do the same with…
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Book Review: The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, translated by Jesse Kirkwood
If you know me at all, you will know that Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout changed me, as a reader, as a writer, and as a person. Olive Kitteridge was the first book I read that looked like a novel, but was instead a series of short stories that were woven together such that it…
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Good Things Come to Those Who Wait (And Work)!
When I started teaching 8th grade English, I had the urge to do some writing for myself. Modeling essay structure for my students became fun, not work. I had many papers to write in my graduate courses for certification to teach, and my instructors would tell me I was a good writer. But, teaching full-time…
