redredrobin
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Short storiesCan anyone recommend some good books of short stories. I need something to read in the car when I turn up early to schools. Short stories are good because I get carried away with novels and could miss the appointments completely!
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greyengine
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Not short stories exactly, but the Scotland Street books by Alexander McCall Smith are written in very short chapters which are pretty much complete in themselves - I think he wrote them originally to be published in installments in a newspaper.
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smallholder
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I would also recommend you try poetry for this sort of situation. I read poems in hospital waiting rooms or waiting for other appointments as I can't settle to anything longer. The collection-
Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times ed Neil Astley - is a wonderful anthology or 'Poems on the underground' ed Gerard Benson, Judith Chernaik & Cicely Herbert.
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magpie nic
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Can't help as I don't like short stories at all!
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redredrobin
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Thanks for the ideas. I didn't think of poetry and I've got lots of poetry books.
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