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Safely received with thanks via the Birthday group. What a lovely day to never stop celebrating :)

The darkness of these short stories feeds on human inner fears. The monsters are untouchable, ingrained deep within. Humiliation, shame, decrepitude transpire throughout the stories. Their common notes resound in a shrilly tone, permeating the silence. There are no jump scares, no boos. The writing is musical, words expertly fall into line and rhythm.

Thank you so much for sharing! The book will travel next to amberC in Australia via the wishlist tag game.

Finally packed and ready to travel. Happy reading!

Arrived safely. Adding to Mt TBR

As with most books of short stories I enjoyed some more than others.

One of my favourites was Vampires in the Lemon Grove

You've been tagged!

Thanks very much for the tag, amberC.
And also for the hitchhiker. :D


From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—a magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell’s gifts at their inimitable best.

A dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull’s nest. A community of girls held captive in a silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms, spinning delicate threads from their own bellies, and escape by seizing the means of production for their own revolutionary ends. A massage therapist discovers she has the power to heal by manipulating the tattoos on a war veteran’s lower torso. When a group of boys stumble upon a mutilated scarecrow bearing an uncanny resemblance to the missing classmate they used to torment, an ordinary tale of high school bullying becomes a sinister fantasy of guilt and atonement. In a family’s disastrous quest for land in the American West, the monster is the human hunger for acquisition, and the victim is all we hold dear. And in the collection’s marvelous title story—an unforgettable parable of addiction and appetite, mortal terror and mortal love—two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove try helplessly to slake their thirst for blood.

Karen Russell is one of today’s most celebrated and vital writers—honored in The New Yorker’s list of the twenty best writers under the age of forty, Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, and the National Book Foundation’s five best writers under the age of thirty-five. Her wondrous new work displays a young writer of superlative originality and invention coming into the full range and scale of her powers.

Placed into Round 80 of the OZ VBB.
Will be reading this month.

Well, that was certainly different! And very, very good. These stories are all unusual, inventive and fresh; written with skill and feeling. They are a mix of creepy, weird, funny, and sad, and no two are at all similar. This is a very solid and worthwhile collection.

The Barn at the End of Our Term was the most enjoyable, but the story that left the biggest impression was Reeling for the Empire.

Not chosen from the VBB, so released into the little free library at the gate.
Enjoy!



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