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Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories
by
Katherine L. Holmes (Goodreads Author)
Winner of Prize Americana, Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction exploring the complexities of life. Laying the profound beside the mundane, author Katherine L. Holmes creates rich and complicated characters who search for identity, meaning, and purpose within a world often dangerous and sometimes even cruel. Her readers relate to s...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
May 21st 2012
by Hollywood Books International
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“Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories” by Katherine L. Holmes is NOT, as I had thought, anything to do with Egyptian history or archaeology. Rather, it is a collection of modern or contemporary fictional short stories which have no commonality that I could discern, other than having all been composed by the same author. Several have been published previously in various magazines or anthologies. Because the stories were each quite different from one another, I liked some more than others...more
I won this book in a goodreads giveaway. I don't think I am the target audience so take my review with a grain of salt. I am college educated, sixty four years old and retired. I generally read fiction to be entertained and escape reality. I get enough depressing news out of non-fiction so do not seek it in fiction.
These stories are all pretty bleak so it was hard for me to keep going. It took me 2 months to read 119 pages. However, since I'd been lucky enought to be given a free copy, I felt I...more
These stories are all pretty bleak so it was hard for me to keep going. It took me 2 months to read 119 pages. However, since I'd been lucky enought to be given a free copy, I felt I...more
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i won this book of short stories on goodreads. i am not a huge fan of short stories but with this little book i was pleasently surprised at how much i really enjoyed each and every tale. they were each only a few pages long but you got a good glimps into that moment into the charecters lives.
i would highly recomend this book to everyone.
i would highly recomend this book to everyone.
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