Posts tagged Short stories

Birds of a Lesser Paradise

When Megan Mayhew Bergman’s Birds of a Lesser Paradise is good, it’s very good. When it’s so-so, a bland and calculated sense of formula creeps into the equation. Luckily, that doesn’t happen enough to be…

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Revenge

io9 recently released a list of essential science fiction and fantasy for 2013 and I added a bunch of the books to my to-read list. One of the books was Revenge by Yoko Ogawa and…

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Sorry Please Thank You

Charles Yu is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. Last year I gushed over the time travel repairman in his mind-bending How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and now I’m going…

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Swagger

Last weekend I got an email from Christa who was twenty-five pages from the end of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story and she didn’t want to finish it because she knew what was…

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Smut

The book Smut is my first taste of English author, Mr. Alan Bennett. Bennett’s short little two-story novella was absolutely delightful and delicious. Although the title implies a scandalous read, it was in fact, pretty…

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