tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post2603259809344747323..comments2024-03-17T10:29:18.809-07:00Comments on Rose City Reader: The Long and Short of ItGilion at Rose City Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18080293172467000794noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-41252770689227654602010-06-05T09:51:49.882-07:002010-06-05T09:51:49.882-07:00Katrina -- Thanks for reminding me about Annie Pro...Katrina -- Thanks for reminding me about Annie Proulx's stories. I did like those a lot. I read them out loud to my husband in the car (a vacation tradition) and we both loved them. And Atkinson is a new favorite of mine, so I will read her stories. <br /><br />Nathalie -- Thanks! My mom brought her old sewing machine and sewing box over to my house last weekend, so those images were on my Gilion at Rose City Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18080293172467000794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-3240967711804742872010-06-04T19:52:28.775-07:002010-06-04T19:52:28.775-07:00I love the Simplicity Pattern! You just took me b...I love the Simplicity Pattern! You just took me back to my mother's sewing basket.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-31096112281271060482010-06-04T14:37:46.123-07:002010-06-04T14:37:46.123-07:00I must admit I prefer novels but if I really like ...I must admit I prefer novels but if I really like a writer I will read their short stories. I loved Maugham's The Verger, Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories and I just finished Kate Atkinson's Not the End of the World which I really enjoyed.Katrinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138715309807238198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-29352604645322069552010-06-04T08:40:51.841-07:002010-06-04T08:40:51.841-07:00Bybee -- I'm going to have to find some Lorie ...Bybee -- I'm going to have to find some Lorie Moore stories and try them. <br /><br />Carin -- Thanks! Those old sewing pattern pictures always make me smile. This one reminded me of matching mini (for me) and maxi (for my mom) dresses my mom sewed for us when I was about seven.<br /><br />Hannah -- I tend to agree. A great author can create a full character in a short story, but it is hard.Gilion at Rose City Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18080293172467000794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-80635230568861146252010-06-03T20:12:35.071-07:002010-06-03T20:12:35.071-07:00I prefer novels way more than short stories. Chara...I prefer novels way more than short stories. Character development is so much harder for authors to achieve in the space of a short story.<br /><br /><br />Hannah<br />www.herebedragons.posterous.comHannah Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13900891367516065115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-85605550404051533122010-06-03T18:10:16.842-07:002010-06-03T18:10:16.842-07:00LOVE the Simplicity shot! Rachel had a skirt like...LOVE the Simplicity shot! Rachel had a skirt like that on Friends prolly in season 3 or 4 and I totally wanted one but never saw one in a store. (Oh, and I hate short stories as a rule but there are always exceptions - one of my all-time favorite books is Poachers by Tom Franklin, a short story collection.)Carin Siegfriedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07278383926500248048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-12663976686219354882010-06-03T15:43:50.254-07:002010-06-03T15:43:50.254-07:00Lorrie Moore totally rocks the short story form.
...Lorrie Moore totally rocks the short story form.<br /><br />During the 80s, I was mad for short stories, but I drifted away from them. I'm not sure why.Bybeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10061186489010154661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-69414520032841168302010-06-03T14:45:49.928-07:002010-06-03T14:45:49.928-07:00Joy -- Thanks for leaving the link. You always hav...Joy -- Thanks for leaving the link. You always have good BTT answers, so I'll come over to visit. <br /><br />Dormouse -- I'll have to check our Laurie Moore's short stories. Maybe they will revive my interest.<br /><br />SS -- Good point. I used to read the short stories in Esquire but haven't in years.Gilion at Rose City Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18080293172467000794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-24199651068020164362010-06-03T13:17:36.599-07:002010-06-03T13:17:36.599-07:00I also prefer the pace of the novel. Then, too, th...I also prefer the pace of the novel. Then, too, there are fewer magazines including short stories these days, not county the really little and literary ones, and so I see fewer of them than I did in the days when, say, Atlantic Monthly had a story or two every issue.<br /><br />MalcolmMalcolm R. Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07840134761199335243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-36305366166748546092010-06-03T13:16:43.629-07:002010-06-03T13:16:43.629-07:00I've been re-reading Self Helf by Lorrie Moore...I've been re-reading <i>Self Helf</i> by Lorrie Moore, and it kick-started my dormant interest in short stories. A well-written short story satisfies a different literary/emotional desire than a well-written novel.The Dormousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16147599435935796188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-16573827771013958892010-06-03T10:50:13.539-07:002010-06-03T10:50:13.539-07:00I pretty much agree, even though I think I prefer ...I pretty much agree, even though I think I prefer Hemingway's stories to his novels. And I think it probably is more difficult to write really good short stories - they're certainly harder to find than good full-length works.<br /><br />Here's <a href="http://jlshall.blogspot.com/2010/06/booking-through-thursday-long-and-short.html" rel="nofollow">my long and short of it</a>.jlshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03268434704970729620noreply@blogger.com