Showing posts with label short stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short stories. Show all posts

Monday, December 31, 2012

How They Met, and Other Stories

Book #191 (Unique books)
Book #50! in 2012
 How They Met, and Other Stories
by David Levithan
 "Here are 18 stories, all about love, and about all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing."

December 29th to 31st - 3 days - 244 pages

Notes:
I really enjoyed this book. I liked that it was stories about love and not love stories, and that it showed lots of different types of love. It was sweet.

Favorite stories:
The Escalator, a love story
The Number of People Who Meet On Airplanes (favorite of all)
Flirting With Waiters
Princes
Breaking and Entering
Skipping the Prom
What a Song Can Do
How They Met
Intersection

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Nine Stories

Book #185 (Unique books)
Book #42 in 2012
 Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger
 "The Stories:

'A Perfect Day for Bananafish' (1948)
'Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut' (1948)
'Just Before the War with the Eskimos' (1948)
'The Laughing Man' (1949)
'Down at the Dinghy' (1949)
'For Esmé – with Love and Squalor' (1950)
'Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes' (1951)
'De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period' (1952)
'Teddy' (1953)"

November 20th to 28th -  9 days - 302 pages

Notes:
Favorite stories:

A Perfect Day For Bananafish
Just Before the War with the Eskimos
De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period
Teddy (I like this one most of all.)

Sunday, October 14, 2012

M is for Magic

Book #179 (Unique books)
Book #35 in 2012
 M is for Magic
by Neil Gaiman

"Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you.
Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers—but always embrace the unexpected."

October 10th to 14th - 4 1/2 days - 260 pages

Notes:
Favorite stories:

The Case of Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Troll Bridge
Chivalry
Instructions