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Reading with some new coffee my dude picked up for me. He knows me so well 🖤

I‘m not even sure where I heard about this collection, but I‘m glad I picked it up. The stories are quietly bizarre and just a few ticks off. Some of them feel a bit hollow, but for the most part there‘s some lovely meat on the bone.

#weekendreading #day9 #readingwomenmonth another beautiful cover 😍😍

Fast reading collection of surreal tales. Each story harkened to the titular theme though what is learned by the protagonists seems antithetical to what they're aiming for. Lots of Gift of the Magi depressing situational irony throughout. The couple stories employing magical realism were favorites. 3/5.

These stories are real weird.

Seemed appropriate to draw similarities for future readers. #babydidabadbadthing

I'm disappointed I didn't get to these stories in more timely manner. They are pretty great! Fans of Diane Cook and Kelly Link should go back in time and get this collection as soon as it came out.

This short story collection had stories like I've never read before. They were very imaginative and some were chilling. This collection was very fun to read and I recommend it to everyone!

Day 6 of @bookriot #riotgrams. #currentreads I'm on the last story of this book and will be starting the Paper Menagerie shortly. 📚

This gorgeous, creepy book pulled me out of a bad post-election reading slump. Nine exquisite stories from Clare Beams that will keep you up at night, in the best possible way. This one's flying under the radar (it's out from Lookout, a small press, which sent me a review copy), but it deserves a place on end-of-year lists!

Hasn't heard of this one.. and after reading this article I'm unsure about whether I would want to read it or not.. 💡

I'm loving this quietly creepy collection so far!

Imagine the sly, surreal, feminist bookbaby of two masterful short story writers -- say, Margaret Atwood and Megan Mayhew Bergman? Then imagine they let Stephen King babysit the bookbaby. (Not for long enough to really warp the bookbaby, just enough to fill the bookbaby's head with some crazy-dark ideas.) Beams' collection brings to mind some of the greatest and most imaginative contemporary literature yet is wholly original.

She's being compared to Shirley Jackson and Margaret Atwood! I need this now. I can't wait until October.

Follow up to my last post: this collection is amazing. Joyce Carol Oates says it best when she says it's, "as if, by a rare sort of magic, Alice Munro and Shirley Jackson had conspired together to imagine a female/feminist voice for the twenty-first century"

A book with a view.