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Ray Bradbury mysteries for some weekend reading…

If you like 1984, you might like my short fiction: The Silence Dividend

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This is a collection of 4 stories and I thought it was great. The stories are creepy and the artwork was amazing. I recommend this book.

I enjoyed this much more than I expected because I typically don‘t go for short stories. But this was quite lovely. Obviously some stories were better than others but how everything was pulled together at the end really made it for me.

I didn't *adore* this one, but as I've observed before, with these short story collections from the British Library Crime Classics collections, they're often more than the sum of their parts. It makes for a fun survey of classic crime in the period, and there were a couple I liked quite a bit -- R. Austin Freeman's stories are always so detailed, for instance.

Aaand that was my #BookSpin!

4½ ✨
On my new Vampire kick, I'm looking back on some Vampire stories and seeing them in a new light.

Previously, I didn't know Abraham Van Helsing, so this short story was just a horrific tale of an abusive father and two scared boys.

Now I see this masterful reimagining of what could have been.
Is Van Helsing a monster hunter just trying to protect and teach his offspring, or is he a senile old man, seeing things that never were?

This book is a rare 5 star from me. It delves not just into the women of myth but the trans and non binary characters as well.

Tried 3 stories and hated them, couldn't finish two of them so I no longer want to read any more short stories in this book.

For the rest of my review, visit my Vlog at:

https://youtube.com/shorts/LvSOIOcHWcw?feature=share

Enjoy!

It anyone were to scroll down my thread, they will notice a post on my starting this 5 months ago. Well, it didn‘t take 5 months. I put it down, paused my Faulkner reading, and started again. I found it unexpected, going ways i did not anticipate. But exceptionally powerful. A rewarding if difficult book. It includes The Bear, a famous Faulkner short story that is novel-sized in the contents. That story does a lot. (But it‘s not my favorite part)