Ninth book of 2024 (is counting like this annoying? idk, it’s all one mutable thread, so, whatever): “Get in Trouble", by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/get-in-trouble).
Get in Trouble - Kelly LinkPaperback edition: February 9, 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction “A collection of short stories in which a writer with a fertile and often fabulist imagination explores inner lies and odd corners of reality.” Indies Choice Book of the Year Finalist Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction of 2015 · NPR 2015 Great Reads · Slate […]Kelly LinkMore great stories, some of which, but fewer than those in “Stranger Things Happen” would fit right in with those collected in “Black Water” ( https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902) and “Black Water 2” ( https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110899731695137550).
gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 2 images twelfth book of '23 for me, "Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature” (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53080.Black_Water I started a Bookwyrm and posted there too but, alas no one there has reviewed it yet), edited by Alberto Manguel. 72 fantastic stories in a door stop of a paper back (at least that's how I read it), each one with a contextual introduction, and organized into themes. I'm now looking forward to starting the second one Manguel collected, Black Water 2. Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109372394967950916Mastodongravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image 16: “Black Water 2, More Tales of the Fantastic” loved it, full of surprises and delights from authors I've never heard of and authors most have — Arthur Conan Doyle, F Scott Fitzgerald, E B White, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margret Atwood, George Bernard Shaw , Arthur C Lark) — and stories too , like Melville's Bartleby. "The Complete Gentleman” turned me onto Amos Tutuola, who I'm now reading in full. And a story from Isabell Allende?! Nice. previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902Mastodon