tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4512516523018627966.post6672335295920105673..comments2023-06-02T14:56:35.057+01:00Comments on The Book Trunk: Short Story Sunday: The LotteryChristine Hardinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09814026435889782750noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4512516523018627966.post-75112569717249142482014-01-19T13:38:02.788+00:002014-01-19T13:38:02.788+00:00Oh, thank you - if you can find the reference I...Oh, thank you - if you can find the reference I'd like to read it. Lisa mentioned Life Among the Savages as well, and it sounds much more my kind of book. I should give her another go, because I had a similar experience with Katherine Mansfield. I hated her short story in this Persephone collection, but loved the ones I have read since then.Christine Hardinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09814026435889782750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4512516523018627966.post-57125937553873098632014-01-19T04:34:44.578+00:002014-01-19T04:34:44.578+00:00This is Shirley Jackson`s most notorious piece of ...This is Shirley Jackson`s most notorious piece of work, but please don`t write her off because of it! Somewhere I read a most enlightening account by the author about how she wrote The Lottery and what the overwhelming response was to its appearance in The New Yorker - I believe it was in an anthology of her work. Anyway, it would make you view it in a completely different light, and yes, I believe the allegorical slant was deliberate. Talk about the banality of evil... I`ll see if I can find that reference.<br /><br />Please do try Life Among the Savages - it is a rather delicious family memoir, and nothing like this short piece of magazine fiction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4512516523018627966.post-76322652470792300012014-01-13T07:37:42.506+00:002014-01-13T07:37:42.506+00:00Minnie's Room is one of my favourites. I hadn&...Minnie's Room is one of my favourites. I hadn't read a lot of short stories before I started this book, and I think it's a perfect introduction to the genre, with lots of different writers, and different styles. There's only been a handful of stories I didn't like.Christine Hardinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09814026435889782750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4512516523018627966.post-74526197034112803672014-01-13T07:21:04.401+00:002014-01-13T07:21:04.401+00:00Lisa, thank you for the recommendations. I will tr...Lisa, thank you for the recommendations. I will try them - they sound much more my style!Christine Hardinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09814026435889782750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4512516523018627966.post-64628727147472191742014-01-12T23:35:17.410+00:002014-01-12T23:35:17.410+00:00I have to agree that The Lottery is a very shockin...I have to agree that The Lottery is a very shocking story. I had no idea what was going on but just 'knew' it wasn't going to end well. My own particular favourite short story collection is Minnie's Room: The Peacetime Stories of Molly Panter-Downes. I thought each story was a perfect little package.Cathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06371069000185280668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4512516523018627966.post-71672537091146124482014-01-12T21:36:34.096+00:002014-01-12T21:36:34.096+00:00If you want to try a completely different type of ...If you want to try a completely different type of book by Shirley Jackson, there is Life Among the Savages, and its sequel Raising Demons. Warm, funny family memoirs - but not sappy or sentimental. I read them long before The Lottery & love them still.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17782561487396697870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4512516523018627966.post-76537440205447019152014-01-12T12:01:29.227+00:002014-01-12T12:01:29.227+00:00Thank you for the kind comment, I like to be able ...Thank you for the kind comment, I like to be able to read what I want, when I want! I've never come across Edith Pearlman, but I enjoyed the Alice Munro collection I read, so I'll try and read some of her work. Not sure if our library will have it though. Christine Hardinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09814026435889782750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4512516523018627966.post-41232034484210544642014-01-12T09:33:36.626+00:002014-01-12T09:33:36.626+00:00Oh I do so agree with you. I came across this in ...Oh I do so agree with you. I came across this in a book of American short stories and really wish I hadn't read it. I've just finished a book of short stories by Edith Pearlman: 'Binocular Vision' and I think she is the best short- story writer ever ... even better than Alice Munro! Unfortunately, I borrowed it from our wonderful local library (in Rutland) so couldn't copy your method of reading one a week and savouring them. Thank-you for an inspiring blog, it says much more to me than those written by people who seem inundated with free books.Nomeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07852416489125069782noreply@blogger.com