Dear reader, dear finder - thank you for coming here to see where this book has been so far. I hope you enjoy it. Do feel free to leave a journal entry below saying where you found this, what you thought of it, and what you intend to do with it.

From the Oxfam shop in Guildford.

This is an absolutely fantastic collection of stories, impressive in the skill displayed across a mighty range of tone, time, and genre. Parts of it are the most depressing things I've read all year; parts are savagely funny; parts break your heart. The irony of the title (because there is very little that Proulx shows us in here that is fine just the way it is); the wicked twists; the realism and the surrealism. This is how you do it.

Travelling in the Short and Sweet bookbox - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/9946189/

Enjoy!

Taken from the bookbox to read