![]() (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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