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Both look at rural superstitions as experienced by outsiders. The Loney was more profound for me, though, in how it subverts religious rituals and posits a subtle evil influence without ever disappearing down doctrinal rabbitholes. It asks how far people will go to get what they want, what meaning there is to human life if there is no supernatural being looking out for us, and — through a framing story set 30 or more years later — how guilt and memory persist.

I especially loved the Tenebrae service in a gloomy church featuring Bosch-like horrors in its artwork. It was as insistent as the priest, louder sometimes, preaching an older sermon, about the sand and the sea. That makes for four volumes in total read recently. Surprisingly, I had my best luck with two that were published back in the early s. Like many devoted novel readers, I struggle with short stories because they can feel fragmentary or open-ended, and it takes that much more effort to keep up with multiple settings and groups of characters.

Yet I also get frustrated when the narrative voice and themes are too similar across a whole set of tales. However, when done well short stories can be marvelous, of course. Among the virtues of the short story, she lists the following:. And yet sometimes the quality of the writing, or at least the intensity of my engagement, can vary wildly within a story collection, which often makes the books difficult to rate and respond to as a whole.

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Three corkers; two pretty good; four been-there-read-that. Both concern a fairly average marriage derailed when the wife undergoes a transformation. In the former Sophia literally turns into a fox and her husband scrambles for a way to make the relationship last. This one is very explicit, but if you can get past that I found it both painful and powerful. It has faint echoes of T. As for the rest? Based on the first six stories, I was planning a 5-star rating. How can you resist this opening line? Each has a creepy segment where the veteran gives sarcastic answers to the unspecified typical questions they always get; we have to infer that these are: How many people did you kill?

I will definitely read more by Woodrell. I thoroughly loved these next two debut collections. Linked short stories can be a useful halfway-house for readers who prefer novels and are still unsure about reading stories. Happily, then, the heart of this collection is five pieces that orbit around the same characters. In the next story we encounter his second wife, Galen, and her lover, Henry. Her protagonists are women disillusioned with the norms of marriage and motherhood. They ditch their safe relationships, or carry on brazen affairs; they fear pregnancy, or seek it out on their own terms.

The feminist messages are never strident because they are couched in such brisk, tongue-in-cheek narratives. I enjoyed these two books so much that I plan to keep reading the short story collections I own through the autumn and winter. The loneliness of certain American states is enough to kill a person if you look too closely. I come from a certain American state: Ten of the 12 stories are in the first person, giving readers a deep dive into the psyches of damaged or bereaved people. Both dramatize the divide between youth and age; in the latter the cat is named Echo, a reminder that the past still resonates.

In the title story, the narrator goes to see her godfather, Leonard, on his deathbed. Bridget had an explosive falling-out with her family when they came to see her accept her college Physics Award. Lacey also uses no speech marks, setting out dialogue in italics instead. It can be tough to assess a story collection as a whole because the parts can range from hard-hitting to instantly forgettable. The problem, of course, is that you never know which those would be for you before you open up the book. The book feels very much of the moment, though. My thanks to the publisher for the free copy for review.

I focused on Innocence: Tales of Youth and Guile , which opens with a reprint of Boy , the closest thing to an autobiography that Dahl wrote.

Room 31 & Gobstopper: 2 Short Stories

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography. Any time they were separated, Dahl wrote to his mother once a week, without fail. The book includes facsimile excerpts from some of these letters, along with black-and-white family photographs and drawings. Pranks and larks and holidays: But so is crushing homesickness and a bitter sense of injustice at being at the mercy of sadistic adults.

Dahl had his adenoids removed without anesthesia, and at school he received and witnessed many a vicious caning. Aware that such scenes are accumulating uncomfortably, he addresses the topic directly:. By now I am sure you will be wondering why I lay so much emphasis upon school beatings in these pages. The answer is that I cannot help it. All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed literally to wound other boys, and sometimes quite severely.

I never have got over it. When he graduated, instead of going to Oxford or Cambridge, he wanted to see the world and have adventures, so he spent the summer of exploring Newfoundland and joined the Shell Company at age His first placement was to East Africa for three years; soon afterwards he would become a fighter pilot in the Second World War. In the short years he spent as a London commuter, he realized how easy a 9-to-5 office job is compared to making a living as a writer.

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. If he is a writer of fiction he lives in a world of fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul. Nearly 60 years later, Dahl could use memory and imagination to fully inhabit his childhood self and give a charming survey of the notable events of his life up to age I dipped into Trickery: I was delighted to be invited to participate in the blog tour for Roald Dahl Day. See below for details of where other reviews have appeared and will be appearing. My rating for all: Leda is a year-old teacher on holiday in southern Italy.

She mostly sits on the beach, minding her own business, but still gets drawn into the minor daily dramas of a large Neapolitan family. One woman is pregnant; another has a small child named Elena who is devastated at losing her doll. She temporarily found it impossible to reconcile motherhood with her career and her general sense of herself.

I was definitely on board for the memories of motherly guilt. Where Ferrante lost me was when Leda steals the doll the child left behind and takes it up to her room to care for it — washing it, buying it new clothes, etc. Every time she sets out to give the doll back or at least leave it somewhere it will be found, she finds another excuse to put it off. But the book was a little too strange for me, and I never really engaged with the Neapolitan characters. Starting from the age of thirteen or fourteen I had aspired to a bourgeois decorum, proper Italian, a good life, cultured and reflective.

Naples had seemed a wave that would drown me. I had run away like a burn victim who, screaming, tears off the burned skin, believing that she is tearing off the burning itself. One of my frequent issues with short fiction is a preponderance of inconclusive endings that make you wonder what the point could be. I experienced that a few times with this collection, especially at the close of Waiting for a Hurricane. Jelly beans use soft panning while the other three are examples of hard panning.

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She is the daughter of an English teacher and a drama teacher and attended several schools including Mac. She grew up in Melbourne's inner east in a cottage called Byron. She says she was 13 years old and on school holidays when she decided to become a recluse and started writing her first book for young adults, entitled The Shadow Thief. In the show, a group of noisy children in a particular area of Britain are sent to the School of Silence from which the show gets its name , where they must learn to be silent.

The children have 3 classes at the school, followed by a final exam. The headmistress, Miss Gobstop, is able to monitor the noise levels using a machine called the Gobstop Each time the children pass the first 3 classes, they will bank a prize from Gobstops "Confiscation Cubbard", while failing a class gets the kids nothing. If the kids pass the final exam, they will graduate with the prizes banked along with the "Golden Gobstopper".

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The list is arranged alphabetically by author. Alexandra Adornetto born wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was It was published in Other books written by her as a teenager are: Jorge Amado — had his debut novel, The Country of Carnival, published in , when he was Prateek Arora wrote his debut novel Village at the age of Daisy Ashford — wrote The Young Visiters while aged 9.

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