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date: 2024-05-25 00:47:58.99 +00
title: "Mastodon post from May 25, 2024, 112498971705277433"
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15th book of 2024: "White Cat Black Dog”, by Kelly Link.

I particularly enjoyed the last one, “Skinder's Veil”

I've never actually read any actual Brothers Grimm, nor have I read (or even heard of) Lang's “The Blue Fairy Book” which I just learned about in a review of these Link stories, so I think they have to both go on the pile.


![the paperback cover of “White Cat, Black Dog”, by Kelly Link, as I read it.The cover is an illustration of a broken open acorn. The half that faces the reader says STORIES on the inside and the half resting on its back has a small black dog sitting in it. Title above, author name below. “White Cat,” in black, and “Black Dog” in a sepia.NATIONAL BESTSELLER WHITE CAT,BLACK DOG "The master of the modern fairy tale." —TodayA short story sorceress. -The Washington Post"An expert illusionist. —The-New YorkerSTORIESKELLY LINKFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE](./112498971458750714.jpeg)