Connie's 2020 Challenge

[Sara, New School Classics]

Two more great stories, Connie.

[Connie]

Sara wrote: "Two more great stories, Connie."

I enjoyed them both. My Goodreads friends' reviews have directed me to lots of interesting short stories this year.

[Sara, New School Classics]

I started adding them a few years back and really enjoy the variety, also a good way to sample an author and see how you like his style.

[Connie]

I often print up a short story to throw in my purse when I have to bring elderly relatives to the doctor's office. I don't want to lose a library book or an e-reader when I'm trying to get them in and out of the car, and deal with their paperwork.

[Sara, New School Classics]

Great idea, Connie. I generally put a paperback in my purse and read if there is any down time at the doctor's office. I have never lost one, but I can see the potential.

[Connie]

Adding There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

[Connie]

Adding Girls, At Play by Celeste Ng

[Connie]

Adding Neighbours by Anton Chekhov

[Connie]

Adding To Be Read at Dusk by Charles Dickens

[Connie]

Adding some wonderful ghost stories by Edith Wharton:

The Lady's Maid's Bell

The Eyes

Afterward

Kerfol

The Triumph of Night

Miss Mary Pask

Bewitched

Mr. Jones

Pomegranate Seed

The Looking Glass

All Souls'

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Connie wrote: "I often print up a short story to throw in my purse when I have to bring elderly relatives to the doctor's office. I don't want to lose a library book or an e-reader when I'm trying to get them in ..."

I like this idea. I have no purse and many times the paperback is to big for a pocket.

[Connie]

Adding Hunted Down by Charles Dickens

[Connie]

Adding How Beautiful With Shoes by Wilbur Daniel Steele (an excellent story that can be found online)

[Connie]

Adding Doctor Marigold by Charles Dickens

[Connie]

Adding A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather

[Connie]

Adding The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

and Haircut by Ring Lardner

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

And I thought I had read a lot of short stories this year, nice going.

[Connie]

Bob wrote: "And I thought I had read a lot of short stories this year, nice going."

Thanks, Bob. You have read a lot of short stories. I'll have to check out your list to get ideas for next year.

[Lynn]

Connie you and Bob have BOTH read an large number of short stories. I am very impressed with your multiple completions.

[Connie]

Thanks, Lynn.

[Connie]

Adding The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade by Edgar Allan Poe

[Connie]

Adding Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler

[Connie]

Adding The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

[Connie]

Adding My Kinsman Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Connie]

Adding "A Manual for Cleaning Women" by Lucia Berlin

[Connie]

Adding Death Constant Beyond Love by Gabriel García Márquez

[Connie]

Adding A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert

[Connie]

Adding The Red Crown by Mikhail Bulgakov

[Connie]

Adding "What Joseph Felt (A Christmas Story)" by Jo Walton

[Sara, New School Classics]

Connie, I popped over and read the Walton story. Short and sweet, but I wondered if you had ever read "The Husband of Mary" by Elizabeth Dillingham Hart. It can be downloaded here: https://hyryxyfumivatoxi.inspirationd...

I think you would find it a remarkable take on the same subject.

[Connie]

Thanks, Sara.

[Connie]

Adding Reginald's Christmas Revel by Saki

[Connie]

Adding Papa Panov's Special Christmas by Leo Tolstoy (children's Christmas story)

[Connie]

Adding The Star by Arthur C. Clarke

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Connie wrote: "Adding The Star by Arthur C. Clarke"

Like you I have read a bunch of short stories this year and The Star is one of the standouts.

[Connie]

The Star was a 5 star read for me, Bob!

[Connie]

Adding A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens

[Jessica-sim]

A very nice selection Connie! I just discovered Saki and am really enjoying it! Edith Wharton is a go to for me too and Ted Chiang, wow... how did you like those?

[Connie]

Jessica, the Wharton ghost stories were excellent. I don't read much SciFi, but I enjoyed Ted Chiang, and I found myself thinking about his stories later.

[Connie]

Adding "One Christmas Eve" by Langston Hughes

[Connie]

Adding "Enemy Territory" by William Melvin Kelley

[Connie]

Adding The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke

[Connie]

Adding Sarah's Sister by John Scalzi

[Connie]

That hits 100 short stories for the year. This was the year of the short story for me since it was harder to concentrate on long works with all the craziness of 2020.

[Lynn]

Connie wrote: "That hits 100 short stories for the year. This was the year of the short story for me since it was harder to concentrate on long works with all the craziness of 2020."

100 short stories is amazing! Congratulations.

[Connie]

Thanks, Lynn.

[Carolien]

Congratulations!

[Connie]

Thanks, Carolien. Now on to the 2021 challenges . . .