Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Best American Short Stories of 2008


Do you like reading but don't really have the time to commit to an entire novel? If you do, then this is the book for you. Each story is a mini-novel in itself. The drama in each story is condensed into a chapter. I think it takes much more skill to write a good short story than it does to write a novel. This is a great book. I know because several of the stories are still running through my mind several weeks after finishing it.

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