The Secrets of a Fire King: Stories
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Many of the award-winning stories in this first collection feature strong, pragmatic women as protagonists, usually motivated by love in its broadest sense: A 19-year-old finds hidden strength after skydiving with an unstable boyfriend; a lonely, uprooted Asian woman makes a life in America; the cleaning woman of a famous scientist idolizes her employer despite suffering physically because of his experiments; a wife connects best with her husband during the time of their greatest challenge. Edwards utilizes her perceptual ability and keen eye for detail to delineate believable characters, many of whom are facing unique challenges. Their haunting situations are effectively complemented by unusual settings in Asia, America and Europe.
DEAR FINDER,
This wonderful collections of short stories is being released at the January Calgary BookCrossing Meet-up at the Joshua Tree Café, for the theme "Best Sellers & Award Winners"
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This wonderful collections of short stories is being released at the January Calgary BookCrossing Meet-up at the Joshua Tree Café, for the theme "Best Sellers & Award Winners"
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Welcome to BookCrossing.com, where we are trying to making the whole world a library!
If you have not already done so, please make a journal entry so we know this book has found a new home. You don't need to join BookCrossing and you can remain completely anonymous. However, we encourage you to join so that you can follow this book's future travels. It's fun and free, and your personal information will never be shared or sold. If you decide to join, consider listing Fracula as referring you.
Take your time reading the book, and after you finish, please make another journal entry to record your thoughts about it. This book is now yours, and you can keep it if you choose, though we would love for you to share it. If you pass it along, please make a release note to let others know where you left it.
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I like short story collections, and with a looming TBR pile, I like thin books like this! Thanks so much Fracula.
Edwards' skill as a storyteller has the reader fall quickly into the worlds of her characters. Of the fourteen stories I liked 'The Secrets of the Fire King' best as I could vividly imagine the setting and characters, (reminded me of the great movie 'O Brother Where Art Thou?), and the twist of the prey becoming predator was very good.
Thanks Fracula for the book, and I'll be looking for more by this author.
Thanks Fracula for the book, and I'll be looking for more by this author.
Released at the Calgary BC Meetup at the Joshua Tree Cafe today.
I was so good last month and now I blew it again and took home way too many books. I can just imagine getting accepted to grad school for the fall and having to give my notice a week earlier than I'd need to just to finish clearing out the backlog on my bookcrossing shelf!
I read this one on the bus to NYC over American Thanksgiving. The short stories were pretty good, though maybe I just prefer novels as a format to short stories. I still think the memory keeper's daughter was better but this was a worthy offering as well.
I read this one on the bus to NYC over American Thanksgiving. The short stories were pretty good, though maybe I just prefer novels as a format to short stories. I still think the memory keeper's daughter was better but this was a worthy offering as well.
Passed to my friend for holiday reading!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at the Joshua Tree Cafe on Edmonton Trail. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at the Joshua Tree Cafe on Edmonton Trail. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
Taking to the June meetup!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at the Joshua Tree Cafe on Edmonton Trail. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at the Joshua Tree Cafe on Edmonton Trail. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
Picked up at the June Calgary Bookcrossing Meeting.
These stories were really tableaus rather than being plot driven, but they were amazingly detailed and immersive. I really felt like I could see, hear, smell, taste and touch the scenes as they were described.
Taken back to the Calgary Bookcrossing Meeting.
The Calgary Bookcrossing group meets every second Saturday in the Joshua Tree. Join us on Facebook!
The Calgary Bookcrossing group meets every second Saturday in the Joshua Tree. Join us on Facebook!
Grabbed at get together
Definitely an interesting collection of stories. None are what I would call uplifting or happy. Some are downright depressing. The ones that aren't depressing are more revealing or people coming to significant realizations within their own lives.
Thanks for the interesting read!
Thanks for the interesting read!
Taken to the get together at the Joshua Tree Cafe
Picked this up at the Nov. book crossing meeting
Picked this up a while ago and just couldn't get excited to read it. I'm not really a fan of short stories so am taking it back to the group to be passed onto the next reader on the list
Taking this to the November Book Crossing meeting to be passed on to the next reader.
Picked up this, and WAY too many books at the November meeting. Really liked her book, so will see how the short stories go.
Some of these stories I really enjoyed. The ones about Madame Curie and the parachuting were especially powerful for me. I suppose the Secrets of the Fire King was too - I couldn't finish it as it seemed to unsettle me so.
I am bringing this book back to the May meet up at Cravings.
Ok so sorry...just found this now,,,,
Just not my cup of tea. Read a couple stories....
I am taking this book to our monthly bookcrossers meet up at Cravings - the second Saturday of every month- to pass on to the next reader.
I don't remember putting my name on this book, but that is nothing new. I always get great books passed across the table to me!
Oh no!! This has been on my bookshelf for Way too long! I have started to sort through my bookshelves (one of three) and I have pulled two boxes of books that have been registered by other Bookcrossers and I am attempting to journal them to let folks know that they are safe. This will go in a box to bring it back to the group one day.
Happy 2022, May it be better for all of us!
Happy 2022, May it be better for all of us!
Sorry, but I need to return some books back to the group at our meetup at Cravings. It has been such a long time since we have gotten together!
So many books and so little time!
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So many books and so little time!
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This book is with me, for a future wild release.
