One of my favourite books is Truismes, the story of a woman who turns into a pig – but, like, a sexy pig, so that’s OK. It’s weird and hilarious and scathingly political but is so hard to recommend to other people because you end up having to use the phrase “a sexy pig” or […]
Read More ‘Selia’ by Marolyn KrasnerThe best thing about this short story was the title. After you’ve finished that, it’s pretty much all downhill. That might sound a little harsh but it’s only because I found this story so frustrating to read. The premise was interesting, the first section set it up so I thought we were going to see […]
Read More The Naked Lady of Prague by Kate Ellis‘Why I Learned To Cook’ is a short story from the Fresh Ink anthology of short stories. I picked it up from the library because I recognised the name of one of the authors who contributed to it but it seems to be aimed at teenagers interested in reading about people from a diverse range […]
Read More ‘Why I Learned to Cook’ by Sara FarizanIt’s not about the actual story, but my Lord, my local library’s e-catalogue sucks ass. Unfortunately it doesn’t suck in the kind of way that would make for an interesting anecdote here, just one of the long meandering ‘… and then I needed to download another app, which of course takes forever, before I could […]
Read More ‘Matricide and Ice Cream’ by William Burton McCormick, #DealMeIn2020Deal Me In! The object of the challenge is to read 52 short stories over the course of the year. As I already had several anthologies of short stories that have been languishing on my bookshelves for a while now, I hoped that signing up would give me the impetus I needed to actually sit […]
Read More 2020 Reading Challenge: Deal Me In
Reading Or Not 