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This Cake Is For The Party: Stories (2010)

by Sarah Selecky(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0887625258 (ISBN13: 9780887625251)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Thomas Allen Publishers

review 1: This book cover tells us this author was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize ... and if you know what that is feel free to share the info because I have never heard of it. Basically this book turns out to be a collection of short stories. Some better then others and some are down right odd but all are readable. I raced through this book in a day and it's writing carried that pace without effort. I personally just wish almost all of the short stories had been lengthened into actual books. I wanted more from the author then the short stories provided and I will look around to see if I can find anything of book length from her.
review 2: Have decided this year to read as many books of short stories as I can. Why? I am trying to decipher what exactly it... more takes to make a good short story collection and to discover the differences in each book of stories. Short stories seem a little more personal, maybe tells a little more about who an author is and how they view things as a person. In other words short stories cut away much of the fluff and fauna. In this collection the author writes stories about average occurrences many people will experience in their lives. They flow well, the conversations and scenes are like those many of us have in our lives. In some of them, though, I would be reading along, comfortable with what was occurring when plop! it was over. So I am thinking I do not understand these endings, what are they supposed to mean? Could be some of them were just over my head but I do believe it is to the author's credit that I was really trying to figure it out. less

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