Tag Archives: Short Story Collection

Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
Unpopular opinion time! I really wanted to love Shit Cassandra Saw. Stories in Kirby’s debut anthology explore many facets of womanhood and gender disparity – themes that normally tickle my fancy. However, most stories in this collection fell flat for me. 😦 After reading Shit Cassandra Saw That She Didn’t Tell the Trojans Because at That […]

Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories by A. S. Byatt
Medusa’s Ankles was my first foray into A. S. Byatt’s canon, and I’m amazed by the breadth of her tales! Generally, you wouldn’t expect an anthology by a single author to span across multiple genres, but as David Mitchell mentions in his Introduction, “Byatt’s scholarly knowledge of English literature, combined with her freethinking attitude to […]

The City of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I’m going to reread this one day, once I’ve read Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet. It is a series (or more correctly, a cycle, as Zafón called it) I’ve always, always wanted to read. I bought the first three novels while in Sri Lanka back in 2012, and was waiting for […]

A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries Edited by Martin Edwards
British Library Crime Classics publishes a Christmas anthology each year and curling up with it on Christmas Eve has now become a tradition of mine. But alas, like with many other things in 2020, it didn’t go the way I hoped this Christmas, and I didn’t quite manage to pick this up until a few […]

Stories from Suffragette City edited by M. J. Rose and Fiona Davis
All the stories in this anthology are set in 1915 on the day of the Women’s Suffrage Parade in New York City. On October 23rd, tens of thousands of women flooded Fifth Avenue clad in white, calling on men to support women’s right to vote. Even though the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the US began […]

Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System edited by Mike Ashley
In this latest addition to the British Library SciFi Classics series, Mike Ashley takes us on a tour of our little neighborhood in the Milky Way. 😃 He has selected stories set in the planets orbiting the Sun (including Pluto despite its “dwarf planet status”), along with the asteroid belt. Even though in these stories […]