Day 48: Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit

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

Rating: 3/10

Day 47: The Huntsman

by Anton Chekhov from Selected Stories of Chekhov

Rating: 3/10

Day 46: Imitation

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from The Thing Around Your Neck

Rating: 5/10

Day 45: The Malley System

by Miriam Allen deFord from Dangerous Visions

Rating: 6/10

Day 44: Ike and Nina

by T.C. Boyle in stories

Rating: 8/10

Day 43: The School

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

Rating: 8/10

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

Day 41: Vermont Tale

by Mark Helprin from Ellis Island


Returned to Give Helprin another shot.

Rating: 6/10

Day 40: Victory Lap

by George Saunders from Tenth of Dec.

Rating: 7/10

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

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

Day 37: Viewfinder

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

Rating: 3/10

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

Day 35: One Minus One

by Colm Tóibín in The Empty Family

Rating: 6/10

Day 34: Modern Love

by T.C. Boyle in stories

Rating: 8/10

Day 33: Cell One

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from The Thing Around Your Neck

Rating: 7/10

Day 32: Small Fry

by Anton Chekhov from Selected Stories of Chekhov

Rating: 4/10

Day 31: Flies

by Robert Silverberg from Dangerous Visions

Another Sci-Fi Sunday selection.

Rating: 7/10

Day 30: The Little Match Girl

by Hans Christian Anderson

After a week of Munro, I decided to try and find a classic that was new to me.  I figured Hans Christian Anderson was a good choice and picked this story that was new to me.

This story was much more too my liking than some of the other 'classic' stories I have read.

Rating: 7/10

Day 29: The Coming Out of Maggie

by O'Henry

I decided to finish out the month with the O'Henry Friday.

This story was a perfect end to my reading of O'Henry.  Like most of the stories I read of his, they seem very much stuck in the period of time that he is writing.  I failed to find the timelessness in his stories that I feel make a great story teller.

Rating: 3/10