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Book Review: *It’s Beginning to Hurt* by James Lasdun

It’s Beginning to Hurt: Stories by James Lasdun
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (July 21, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0374299026

Back-of-the-book blurb: The stories in this remarkable collection—including “An Anxious Man,” winner of the National Short Story Prize (UK)—are vibrant and gripping.  James Lasdun’s great gift is his unfailing psychological instinct for the [...]

Book Review: *Olive Kitteridge* by Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (September 30, 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-0812971835

Back-of-the-book blurb: At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, [...]

Book Review: Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks

 

Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks
Publisher: White Whisker Books (April 7, 2008 )
Paperback: 172 pages
ISBN-10: 0615188702
ISBN-13: 978-0615188706

I connected with Christopher Meeks when he responded to a post I wrote about the difficulty my book group has had discussing short stories; he wrote an excellent guest post which offered several suggestions on how to approach a [...]