I just love the story "Fuerdai to the Max" so much I cannot NOT review it. So on this very last day of #ShortStorySeptember I posted a review of my most favorite from the collection Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang.

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The Best Place on Earth (2016) by Ayelet Tsabari Aiming to complete one more post before #ShortStorySeptember ends, I was plodding through Isaac Babel’s Odessa Stories when the Asian Review of Books popped into my inbox and with its very fi…

A fine collection for the last day of #ShortStorySeptember: The Best Place on Earth by Israeli-Canadian Ayelet Tsabari of Yemeni heritage anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/30/t...

A TCL #ShortStorySunday post – Also Quin-Essential! Review for the second two Short Stories in “The Mysterious Mr. Quin” by Agatha Christie. Goodreads Summary: "A conjurer of skill with an instinct for detection, Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it just a trick of light that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition?

#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon A TCL #ShortStorySunday post - Also Quin-Essential! My #bookreview for two more stories in The Mysterious Mr. Quin by #agathachristie, on my #bookblog now! Thanks Lisa Hill @ http://anzlitlovers.com for #ShortStorySeptember #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal

#ShortStorySeptember: Stories by Katherine Heiny, Shena Mackay and Ian McEwan Every September I enjoy focusing on short stories, which I seem to read at a rate of only one or two collections per month in the rest of a year. This year, Lisa of ANZ Lit Lovers is hosting Short …

I'm not participating but #ShortStorySeptember looks like a lot of fun! from @bookishbeck.bsky.social: bookishbeck.com/2025/09/18/s...

“Fiction is an attack in the night…” #shortstoryseptember #rosalindbrackenbury My final read for Short Story September is a collection which only arrived recently at the Ramblings, but which I was very excited to receive – “No Such Thing as a Free Lunch” by …

My final read for #shortstoryseptember is a remarkable collection by Rosalind Brackenbury, reissued by Michael Walmer - No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. Why she’s not better known is beyond me! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/f...

#WIPSnips meets #shortstoryseptember. Today's word is "absorb." This is from "The Book Witch," a short story in progress.

Moira's learning some. . . interesting. . . things about her bookstore, The Raven's Calling, and her new friend, Meredith.

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#ShortStorySeptember: Graham Swift & Leone Ross Lisa of ANZ Lit Lovers is hosting Short Story September this year, and it fits beautifully with the upcoming Novellas in November, hosted by Rebecca and Cathy, and the new challenge I’m hosti…

Reviewing two very different (to put it mildly) short story collections for #ShortStorySeptember: drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/s... #booksky

The Penguin Book of Southern African Stories (1985), edited by Stephen Gray This collection of Southern African stories is an old one, and I have no doubt that any such collection published today would be very different.  Stephen Gray (1941-2020) edited the collection duri…

#ShortStorySeptember This collection of Southern African stories is an old one, and I have no doubt that any such collection published today would be very different.
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Today's author for #ShortStorySeptember is Rodney Hall, and his most eloquent collection Silence:
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“You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.” (Albert Einstein) It’s been hugely stressful few weeks, which meant my reading has fallen off a cliff. I didn’t get to my final read for #WITMonth but I hope to at some point (Magda Szabo’s The Door, where the bookm…

Today on a the blog, a post for #ShortStorySeptember hosted by @anzlitlovers.bsky.social "You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it." (Albert Einstein) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/09/20/y...

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Ngl I've been in and out of a rut of burnout for the past few weeks. Today is the first day that I'm feeling good for a while and managed to get a lot of #writing done for #shortstoryseptember at least. Overall uggghhhhh I know I can still feel it tho... but my circumstances are changing soon

Used the prompts from yesterday & today to edit up the midsection of my #ShortStorySeptember project.
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“Shanghai thirty years ago on a moonlit night …” #eileenchang For once, I know exactly what prompted me to buy the book I’m sharing today – and that was a review by JacquiWine of Eileen Chang’s “Jasmine Tea and other stories”. Ch…

On the Ramblings today, another read for #shortstoryseptember - a fascinating collection of works by Eileen Chang in a lovely #PenguinArchive volume. Definitely want to read more by her now! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/s...

Dream Stuff (2000), by David Malouf Although I’ve read a dozen books or more by David Malouf (b.1934), only half a dozen of them are reviewed here because I read the others before I started this blog. So it’s a pleasure t…

#ShortStorySeptember: another one from my shelves: Dream Stuff by David Malouf
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TCL’s #TopTenTuesday – #ShortStorySeptember – September 16, 2025. The topic for my fourth #TTT for 2025 is my own: Short Story Collections! According to Jana's website: "Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL’s #TopTenTuesday - #ShortStorySeptember - September 16, 2025. My favorite short stories and collections. I'm hoping Jana @ArtsyReaderGirl won't mind my doing a non-theme list this week, but... #shortstories light my fire? #bookmemes #booklist

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The first page for my Novella (that will have its TTRPG) RockSiege - The Lost Letter

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Houston, we have a plot! #shortstoryseptember

Potch and Colour (1944), by Katharine Susannah Prichard My First Edition copy of Katharine Susannah Prichard’s 1944 short story collection Potch and Colour is a bit of a treasure.  Inscribed with ‘To Mother with love — Chris & Ben, 12-5-…

A rarity for #ShortStorySeptember: Potch and Colour (1944), by Katharine Susannah Prichard anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/15/p...

Short Story September 2025 It’s Short Story September! The aim is to discover short story collections that are good to read. Something for every taste! To participate, please keep it simple.  We all know that it’…

It's #ShortStorySeptember. While, in the UK, this is a festival encouraging people to try their hand at the short story form, in the world of book reading @anzlitlovers.bsky.social is running a reading challenge that I plan to join before the month is out.
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A TCL #ShortStorySunday post – Quin-Essential. Review for the first two Short Stories in “The Mysterious Mr. Quin” by Agatha Christie. Goodreads Summary: "A conjurer of skill with an instinct for detection, Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it just a trick of light that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition?

#bookthreads #booksky 💙📚#bookstodon A TCL #ShortStorySunday - Quin-Essential. My #bookreviews for the first two #ShortStories from "The Mysterious Mr. Quin" by #AgathaChristie, on my #bookblog now. Thanks to Lisa @ anzlitlovers.com for hosting #ShortStorySeptember #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal

It's currently #ShortStorySeptember and so a new release from @mikewalmer.bsky.social "No Such Thing as a Free Lunch", a collection by the massively underrated Rosalind Brackenbury will be the perfect read for the event!

Book review: The Best of Edgar Allan Poe MY VERDICT: A haunting collection that masterfully crafts psychological intensity – though readers like me may find the relentless focus on insanity, burial alive, and macabre horror more dis…

#ShortstorySeptember and #RIPXX #ccbookreviews
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Death and the maiden: #ShortStorySeptember Johann David Schubert’s ‘Leonore’. ‘The Spectre Bridegroom’ and ‘The Pride of the Village’ by Washington Irving, from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, G…

Reviews of ‘The Spectre Bridegroom’ and ‘The Pride of the Village’ (1819-20) by Washington Irving for #ShortStorySeptember wp.me/sezD85-spectr

“The depravity of human nature is unbelievable” #spinsterseptember #missmarple Today’s post covers a book which couldn’t be more different from the last one I wrote about, and I’m counting it for two of this month’s events – #SpinsterSeptember, o…

On the Ramblings today! A book which qualifies for #spinsterseptember AND #shortstoryseptember - and, oh joy, it's Miss Marple!! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/t...

Dropped Xuan Juliana Wang's Home Remedies several months ago. Now wanna try and read it again for #ShortStorySeptember hosted by @anzlitlovers.bsky.social . Wish me luck I won't drop it again this time 🤞🏻.

To Kill a Crested Bellbird and other stories (2023), by David Jagger I have a large pile of Australian short story collections to tackle during #ShortStorySeptember and it is hard to choose because I can’t possibly read them all, but David Jagger’s To Ki…

Aussie short stories for #ShortStorySeptember from the Red Centre: To Kill a Crested Bellbird and Other Stories by David Jagger anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/11/t...

Four short story collections from the Penguin 60s Classics series, and a copycat… While we were in South Australia, we made a side trip from Adelaide to the historic town of Burra… where it did not take long for me to spy the bookshop! And lo! in the window, waiting just f…

#ShortStorySeptember: Four short story collections and a copycat:
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Spirits Without Ghosts? Book Review for “A Carol for Mrs. Dickens” by Rebecca Connolly. Summary: "By 1851, all of London has fallen in love with A Christmas Carol, heralding Charles Dickens as “the man who invented Christmas.” But for his wife, Catherine, Christmas is less of a reason for celebration and more of a burden. Between hosting lavish parties, decorating her home, and caring for her eight children—with one more on the way—she feels more like Scrooge than herself this year.

#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Spirits Without Ghosts? My #bookreview for "A Carol for Mrs. Dickens" by @author.rebecca.connolly on my #bookblog now! Thanks @shadowmountainpub for the @this_is_edelweiss ARC novella. #histficreadingchallenge
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Every One Still Here ~ Liadan Ní Chuinn – Short Story September

Day 5 #ShortStorySeptember
Every One Still Here by Liadan Ni Chuinn featuring “Amalur”
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