Track the Short Fiction You've Read in 2019!

[Elke]

Thanks to you all, this was a fun challenge and I'm amazed at how many short stories I managed to read considering I always said I'm not a fan of them... But last year brought some great anthologies, and thanks to HA group reads I was made aware of them (sure would have (dis)missed them otherwise). Glad I gave them a try! Also, I love to see what others read and recommend, and thus find new books to read. I will definitely continue this year!

@Canavan: I was surprised to see the Grimm fairy tales on your list (and in German!) which I grew up with. Reminds me to dig out my old fairy tale books for my son...

@Greg: discovered some interesting sites like the Arcanist - still have to check out the Umpire story, that immediately caught my interest (though I'm no longer as vampire-enthusiastic as in the past, that word still catches my eye ;)

@Corinne: a 1.5* star story by Stephen King? I definitely have to read that one again! Just found that the German edition was split into three books first, gladly I still have all of them. It will be fun to read some of that old stuff again - I'm curious whether I will remember the stories at all after 30+ years...

Hope to "see" you this year again!

[Alastor]

I finished M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman in December.
This month I'm starting Susan Hills The Travelling bag and other stories

[Canavan]

Elke said (in part):

Canavan: I was surprised to see the Grimm fairy tales on your list (and in German!) which I grew up with. Reminds me to dig out my old fairy tale books for my son...

I do still have a number of older fairy tale collections on my bookshelves, although mostly the ones compiled by Andrew Lang. The reason I was revisiting those stories in 2019 was in preparation for a modern collection of fairy tales that I read in conjunction with the members of another Goodreads group. The anthology in question (which I recommend, by the way) was The Starlit Wood (2016). Each author was tasked with writing a “new” fairy tale that took as its starting point the characters and/or themes expressed in one (or more) of the older classic stories.

When listing any tales I’ve read that have been translated into English, I often specify the original non-English title, hence the reason I noted the German-language titles for the tales compiled by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. I can sorta read German, but barely at a grade school level. 😁

[Canavan]

Corinne said (in part):

haha Elke it's not the first and only :D.

Coincidentally, I just completed a re-read of some of the stories in Stephen King’s Skeleton Crew , the collection that includes “Nona”. (view spoiler)[I like that story a bit more than you do, Corinne, but agree that the specific way in which the unreliability of this narrator plays out is a bit of a shopworn trope. As for the collection as a whole, while it contains some of my favorite King stories, it also boasts a few real clunkers. (hide spoiler)]