Status Updates From The Birds and Other Stories

just went ?!?!!!!!? after finishing the Old Man, which is sometimes really all i want to feel after reading a good book.

the ending of Kiss Me Again, Stranger… it doesn’t matter if i can guess how these short stories might go, the way they actually play out somehow always shock me 😭 also liked the brief commentary in this one about WW2

The Little Photographer is my second favourite so far after The Birds - daphne du maurier is so great at writing characters with strong personalities, even if the story itself is only 50 pages long, and building up suspense and keeping the reader at the edge of their seat

just finished The Apple Tree! i felt for the husband at first because he’s a very biased narrator, but as the story unfolds… well my feelings certainly changed. it reminded me a bit of The Picture of Dorian Gray where the consequences of your actions are both inevitable and well-deserved.

Monte Verità was definitely more strange (if that’s the right word) than The Birds. not as strong as a story, i think, even though it’s much longer, but it did grip me until the end and i still enjoyed reading it

i wanted to track my feelings about each short story separately so - The Birds was terrifying. you’re honestly fearing for the lives of the characters right along with them. it was only 40 pages long but the tension was rising off the pages. very excellent