Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Day 48: Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit

by Raymond Carver from What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Rating: 3/10

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Monday, June 15, 2015

Day 46: Imitation

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from The Thing Around Your Neck

Rating: 5/10

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Friday, June 12, 2015

Day 43: The School

by Donald Barthelme from http://www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/stories/bart.html

Rating: 8/10

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Day 42: Her Sweet Jerome

by Alice Walker from In Love & Trouble

I enjoyed this story much more than the others so far in this book.

Rating: 7/10

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Day 41: Vermont Tale

by Mark Helprin from Ellis Island


Returned to Give Helprin another shot.

Rating: 6/10


Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Monday, June 8, 2015

Day 39: The Night Horizon

by Miroslav Penkov from East of the West

Returned to the stories about Bulgaria. 

This is the first story that I really didn't care for from this book.

Rating: 4/10

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Day 38: The Day After the Day the Marians Came

byFrederik Pohl from Dangerous Visions

Another Sci-Fi sunday story.  These stories are by far my favorite of the project.

Rating: 7/10

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Day 37: Viewfinder

by Raymond Carver from What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Rating: 3/10

Friday, June 5, 2015

Day 36: The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin from americanliterature.com

Since I am no longer doing the O.Henry Fridays, I decided to use Fridays to read classics from other authors as well.   I will be starting with the list from http://americanliterature.com/twenty-great-american-short-stories of 20 great american short stories.  I have read about half of them but will be reading the ones I have not read over the next several Fridays.

There seems to be a vain in older short stories that they end with a quick twist.  This one did not disappoint.

Rating:8/10

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Day 33: Cell One

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from The Thing Around Your Neck

Rating: 7/10

Monday, June 1, 2015

Day 32: Small Fry

by Anton Chekhov from Selected Stories of Chekhov

Rating: 4/10