Thoughts on Short Fiction: Short Stories about Love
All this Valentine’s shenanigans last Friday have made me sentimental and a bit melancholic on the subject of love and all its subtleties. So, with nothing better to do, I reminisced on all the short stories I’ve read over the course of my life that tackled the complicated subject of love and I thought about … Continue reading
Thoughts on Short Fiction: The Superlatives of 2013
Finishing my last short story collection this year, Alice Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are?, I can conclude that this is a good year for short fiction. Of the 68 books that I’ve read so far for 2013, 23 were short story collections or anthologies and that is not mentioning the various short stories … Continue reading
Essential Reading: July 2013
The reading slump continues this June with me reading only three books for the month (one I finished in July but we’ll let it slide won’t we?) which is as follows: Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro (5/5) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (5/5) Self-Help by Lorrie Moore (4/5) Even though … Continue reading
BookLove: March 2013
I just had to change the featured image and the name for this monthly feature since the former is so clunky and messy while the latter is kind of obscene. So, as per the suggestion of Rhena, I changed the look and the name of this feature. Anyway, enough with the idle chitchat and on … Continue reading
The Book Hooligan 