I'm starting to think audio is just not the format for me for short stories, because this is the third story collection I've read on audio and been thoroughly underwhelmed by. I loved Paul Yoon's first story collection, Once the Shore, but I found this one hard to access. The stories in this collection range... Continue Reading →
I was pleasantly surprised by this YA story collection of queer historical fiction. I wasn't expecting it to be bad, of course, but I also wasn't prepared for just how much it moved me. In All Out, seventeen fantastic YA authors writes stories about queer teens, representing a diverse range of gender, sexuality, race, class... Continue Reading →
The King is Always Above the People: another collection of stories I wanted to love and did not. I keep reading new story collections, hoping I'll find one to love, but the truth is, I think it's one hundred times harder to write a good collection of stories than it is to write a good novel.... Continue Reading →
I picked this one up as part of my search for graphic short stories. I read How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis a few months ago, and ever since, I've been slightly obsessed with graphic short story collections. There are many individual short stories that I love, but I rarely fall in love with... Continue Reading →
What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky is a collection of stories focusing primarily on the experiences of Nigerians and Nigerian immigrants. It's a book about mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, and the complicated relationships that exist between home and homeland. While I enjoyed most of these stories, the book as... Continue Reading →
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