Lisa at ANZ LitLovers will be hosting a new reading event – Short Story September, running from September 1 to 30. On September 1st Lisa will set up a post where all contributions can be posted so that they form a valuable resource that is easy to find.
To participate, please keep it simple. We all know that it’s hard to review short story collections, so all you are asked to do is to read a collection and then choose just one story from that collection to review. To sidestep all the yada-yada about how many words a short story can be, just choose a story that can be read in under an hour.
Contributions should include the name of the short story and its author, and the title of the collection that you found it in, and its editor is there is one. Please #NameTheTranslator for all translations. It’s fine to mention the titles of other stories in the collection that you also enjoyed, of course.
Aim for a review that’s less than 800 words, but this is not a hard-and-fast rule because some stories need less and others need more.
I’ve four collections of Agatha Christie’s short stories I’ve been meaning to read for ages. So, I got them down from the bookshelves:
Poirot’s Early Cases – Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot’s early cases from the days before he was famous from theft and robbery to kidnapping and murder – were all guaranteed to test Poirot’s soon-to-be-famous ‘little grey cells’ to their absolute limit.
The Golden Ball and Other Stories – bizarre romantic entanglements, supernatural visitations and classic murders.
Miss Marple and Mystery: the Complete Short Stories, an omnibus of 55 short stories, presented in chronological order 1923 -1958.
The Complete Parker Pyne, Private Eye – this edition brings together all 14 stories featuring the rather fat and unconventional Mr Parker Pyne.
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