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Aug 01, 2022johncruse rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Sad and depressing.
Apr 13, 202121221018293347 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Excellent examples of Emma Donoghue's writing abilities. Each story is followed by a brief historical article; a news item, a small piece of history found in a library, a news article. Stories are set in Canada and America from the…
Aug 26, 2015
Aug 2015.....used this for the "a book of short stories" category for the Chinook Arch summer reading challenge. I have read a couple of Emma's books before and enjoyed them, and this one didn't disappoint.
Apr 13, 2015LadyDi52 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Sad and often depressing stories about cholera, smallpox, murder, slavery and unhappy wives.
Mar 02, 2015empbee rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
An excellent collection of short stories. Great style. Very well presented. I would like more.
May 21, 2014sooke642 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent!
Aug 03, 2013
This is a collection of short stories, most of which take place in the 1700's or 1800's. Donoghue is a master of telling each story in a different voice and style to suite both the time period and personalities of the characters. Each…
Jun 14, 2013maven rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Just ok. Some of the stories were interesting, others not so much. The writing felt flat at times, like it was just on the surface of the story or of a real emotion.
abkeller
Feb 23, 2013abkeller rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Readers will really enjoy this marvelous collection of uniquely wonderful short stories. These are pages from our past, providing images as strikingly real as nearly freezing to death in the frozen wilderness. We are asked to view the…
Jan 10, 2013ownedbydoxies rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Taking news stories from decades past, sometimes just a hint of a story, the author weaves a short fiction around each. Striking work.
Jan 07, 2013GummiGirl rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A wonderful collection, in which the author brings her characters, and their times, vividly to life.
rowanquincy
Dec 05, 2012rowanquincy rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
well written, but so gloomy that I didn't really enjoy this book.
ksoles
Nov 11, 2012ksoles rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Each story in Emma Donoghue’s new collection has roots in fact: the trouble caused by a paranoid settler in 17th-century Cape Cod; the gruelling Yukon winter of 1896, which broke the spirits of so many prospectors; the enduring love…
Sep 25, 2012SPL_Laura rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Absolutely loved this compilation of short stories from one of my favourite authors of all time. Note: read the afterword, probably one of the best parts of the book. At first I thought the stories weren't flowing as well as usual but the…
Sep 15, 2012
Wonderful stories ranging across time and place.