topfivebooks.com.au https://topfivebooks.com.au So many books, so little time... Thu, 06 Sep 2018 03:09:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.10 A Guide to Being Born by Ramona Ausubel https://topfivebooks.com.au/top-five-short-stories/a-guide-to-being-born-by-ramona-ausubel/ https://topfivebooks.com.au/top-five-short-stories/a-guide-to-being-born-by-ramona-ausubel/#respond Thu, 06 Sep 2018 03:09:12 +0000 http://topfivebooks.com.au/?p=500764 This one is dead quirky, but in a fascinating way. It deserves a place in the Top Five on the strength of the first story alone, written by a dead grandmother. Unforgettable.    

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]]> This one is dead quirky, but in a fascinating way. It deserves a place in the Top Five on the strength of the first story alone, written by a dead grandmother. Unforgettable.

 

 

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]]> https://topfivebooks.com.au/top-five-short-stories/a-guide-to-being-born-by-ramona-ausubel/feed/ 0 Different Seasons by Stephen King https://topfivebooks.com.au/top-five-short-stories/different-seasons-by-stephen-king/ https://topfivebooks.com.au/top-five-short-stories/different-seasons-by-stephen-king/#respond Thu, 06 Sep 2018 03:06:03 +0000 http://topfivebooks.com.au/?p=500757 I know I know it’s Stephen King, but when he stays away from the horror, he’s actually a bloody good writer. This volume contains two classic short stories that have subsequently been made into movies: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (filmed as The Shawshank Redemption)  and The Body (filmed as Stand By Me). King’s writing is spare and […]

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]]> I know I know it’s Stephen King, but when he stays away from the horror, he’s actually a bloody good writer. This volume contains two classic short stories that have subsequently been made into movies: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (filmed as The Shawshank Redemption)  and The Body (filmed as Stand By Me). King’s writing is spare and restrained and all the more powerful for it. Very, very good.

 

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]]> https://topfivebooks.com.au/top-five-short-stories/different-seasons-by-stephen-king/feed/ 0 Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want it by Maile Meloy https://topfivebooks.com.au/top-five-short-stories/both-ways-is-the-only-way-i-want-it-by-maile-meloy/ https://topfivebooks.com.au/top-five-short-stories/both-ways-is-the-only-way-i-want-it-by-maile-meloy/#respond Thu, 06 Sep 2018 03:05:01 +0000 http://topfivebooks.com.au/?p=500762 Meloy is such a talented writer I’d happily read anything she’d written, even her shopping list. This collection defies categorisation; you just kind of have to read it to appreciate it. So good.

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]]> Meloy is such a talented writer I’d happily read anything she’d written, even her shopping list. This collection defies categorisation; you just kind of have to read it to appreciate it. So good.

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]]> https://topfivebooks.com.au/top-five-short-stories/both-ways-is-the-only-way-i-want-it-by-maile-meloy/feed/ 0 A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor https://topfivebooks.com.au/uncategorized/a-good-man-is-hard-to-find-by-flannery-oconnor/ https://topfivebooks.com.au/uncategorized/a-good-man-is-hard-to-find-by-flannery-oconnor/#respond Thu, 06 Sep 2018 03:00:54 +0000 http://topfivebooks.com.au/?p=500759 Just read the first story in this collection and you’ll get it. The power and horror and the beauty of the short story, perfectly encapsulated.    

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]]> Just read the first story in this collection and you’ll get it. The power and horror and the beauty of the short story, perfectly encapsulated.

 

 

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]]> https://topfivebooks.com.au/uncategorized/a-good-man-is-hard-to-find-by-flannery-oconnor/feed/ 0 You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld https://topfivebooks.com.au/top-five-short-stories/you-think-it-ill-say-it-by-curtis-sittenfeld/ https://topfivebooks.com.au/top-five-short-stories/you-think-it-ill-say-it-by-curtis-sittenfeld/#respond Tue, 29 May 2018 03:53:18 +0000 http://topfivebooks.com.au/?p=500489 The only problem with Curtis Sittenfeld is that she doesn’t produce a new book every fortnight. She’s the American Helen Garner, intelligent, perceptive and so full of compassion for all us frail humans. Eligible and American Wife were both astonishingly good books, and so is You Think It, I’ll Say it. It’s a book about grown […]

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]]> The only problem with Curtis Sittenfeld is that she doesn’t produce a new book every fortnight. She’s the American Helen Garner, intelligent, perceptive and so full of compassion for all us frail humans. Eligible and American Wife were both astonishingly good books, and so is You Think It, I’ll Say it. It’s a book about grown ups and the fact that our lives don’t get less complicated as we age, they just become complicated in different ways. The first story, The Nominee, is the kind you want press on people and say, “here – read this now, right now” and the others were equally absorbing. So just read it now, please. This book shows why short stories should survive and thrive.

 

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