false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167357308m/22721.jpg 22721 13 <P>Get ready to paint the town green.<P><I>New York Times</I> bestselling authors Maeve Binchy and Marian Keyes top an impressive roster of the Emerald Isle's most popular women writers as they celebrate the joys and perils of love and the adventure and constancy of female friendships.<P>In <B>Maeve Binchy</B>'s "Carissima," an ex-pat returns to Ireland and shakes things up for her family, who finds her free spirit scandalous. In "Soulmates," by <B>Marian Keyes,</B> one woman's relationship is so bleedin' perfect that it's driving her friends crazy. In <B>Cathy Kelly'</B>s "Thelma, Louise and the Lurve Gods," two women on a madcap Stateside road trip encounter a pair of insanely good-looking men....These fabulous stories and a baker's dozen more prove that when it comes to spinning a good yarn, the Irish are the best in the business. <P> 1980705 1998 Irish Girls About Town: An Anthology of Short Stories total:736|5:106|4:225|3:289|2:93|1:23| 736 2506 1133 63 1 1 false false Wed Dec 17 11:18:02 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 11:19:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 17:58:51 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 18:07:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 09:19:56 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 09:24:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 13:04:56 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 13:08:09 -0800 2009
I think I just don't really enjoy short stories as much as I do a novel. You don't have enough time to really connect with th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 03 09:12:54 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 09:19:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 01:40:08 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 19:39:27 -0700 2008
Out of those 16 stories I love reading Carissima, written by Maeve Binchy.

It's about a friendship between Nora (Maeve's main character from The Evening Class ) and Brenda ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Dec 17 23:22:28 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 15:35:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 23:07:47 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 23:52:43 -0700 2009 The Twenty-Eighth Day, Thelma, Louise and the Lurve Gods, Carissima, and Girls' Weekend). The rest were either so-so or the main characters were hard to root for.]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 12 18:27:46 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 15:06:40 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 18:27:46 -0800 2009 1 5 0 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu May 14 19:29:25 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 19:30:35 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sun Mar 01 08:48:22 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 08:49:08 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 10:15:40 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 08:54:36 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 11:18:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 11:19:01 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Jun 07 05:14:31 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 05:16:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 02 19:09:46 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 19:10:10 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Wed May 20 16:27:29 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 17:49:17 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Apr 29 17:27:05 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 17:27:32 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 13:10:04 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 08:40:36 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Wed May 23 17:50:01 -0700 2007 Sun May 27 11:17:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jul 22 07:21:36 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 07:28:07 -0700 2007 Most of the stories are not special.
I only recommend three short stories, which are The Union Man, Soulmate and An Independent Woman.
Those three short stories are great, since the idea is from simple thing but written so differently :D Those stor...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=22721