Collections of short stories are great to keep in your bag
September 30, 2011 12:58 pm Book AdviceIt’s always good to have a book of short stories on you. Whenever you are out and about there are likely to be spells where you have to wait for something to happen. These are the ideal times to familiarise yourself with some great short pieces.
I carry Ernest Hemingway’s First Forty-Nine Stories with me whenever a novel is too much to carry or I don’t expect I’ll get long enough to read a whole chapter. The short story is a fantastic medium for ideas and styles so it is nice to slowly work your way through the works of an author you admire, gradually reading all the stories in a collection before moving on to something new.