![]() ![]() ![]() (Sales=money+confidence=motivation, I always hope.) But the book languishes reproachfully on the TBR, until eventually I admit to myself that no, I’m not going to read it. I always buy anything my favourite Aussie authors write, to encourage them to keep writing. ![]() When my very favourite authors publish a collection I do buy it. But because I know from having read more than a few, that short stories just don’t work for me, I stubbornly refuse to buy or read ’em. Karenlee, an author herself, writes reviews that show me just how cunningly these collections are crafted. (Update: thanks to Sue, for providing the URL for Musings about Short Stories). Bloggers whose opinion I respect and admire love them – Sue at Whispering Gums, for instance, writes enticing reviews about them and a whole article about them as well. No, I feel mildly guilty because short stories require great skill and imagination to write, and many of my favourite authors have laboured long and hard over collections of these little gems. Not because they don’t get reviewed here, because they do, thanks to guest reviews by my dear friend Karenlee Thompson. ![]() Every now and again I feel a bit guilty about not being fond of short stories. ![]()
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