Way too silent around here

So what is everyone reading?

I've been rereading George Saunders' Pastoralia. Good stuff.

(Sorry, can't get the touchstone to work for the title.)

Two ER titles, Immunity to strange tales and at the mouth of the river of bees

Both are weird SF collections of slightly unusual stories. Neither were totally jaw dropping, but equally weren't bad either. Starnge tale was more consistent thourghout although shorter and weirder. Bees was a much longer book with a wider variety of styles, lengths, and topics.

Just starting The I L Peretz Reader, which also includes some nonfiction.

I just started Steampunk II : steampunk reloaded . It's a mix of fiction and non, heavy on the fiction.

Into Long Island Noir, an ER win.

Really enjoying Amos Oz's Scenes From Village Life at the moment. Although it's his most recent published in English, I'd recommend it as an excellent introduction to his work for those who've never read him before. It's a series of loosely inter-connected stories set in a village in the contemporary north of Israel.

Started yesterday; Man's Work by John Connelly.

I'm reading two short story collections at the moment: Encounters: An Anthology of South African Short Stories, edited by David Medalie, and Gods Eyes A-Twinkle by T.F. Powys.

I had been catching up with some magazines and journals lately - so will post some notes and comments later this week.

Savouring every page of Suddenly, A Knock At The Door by Etgar Keret.

Reading Ghost Seas by Steven Utley. A variety of genres, some SF with an emphasis on time travel to the Paleozoic, and some historical fiction. One very good story about the fall of Richmond at the end of the American Civil War, "The Electricity of Heaven", seen through the experience of a fictional Confederate newspaper editor. The title story, "Ghost Seas", is macabre but memorable, more Gothic than SF. I am fond of Utley because he occasionally writes poetry about trilobites. But I recommend his fiction as well. An under-recognized author.

Utley is definitely under-recognized. I really liked his The Beasts of Love.

It's hard to imagine 2013 is coming so fast. Would anyone else like to do a year-long challenge of one first-time author's collection of short stories a month? Authors of one's own choosing, but I'd start a thread over in the 75-Books Challenge each month with five or six suggestions and link to it here.

I need to keep up the short-story world's presence here on LT! Genres not important, just the short story format.

Oh, and if there's an author one wants to read (eg, Edith Pearlman) whose first book came out a while back, heave it in.

Anyone up for that?

I am always in for short stories so sign me up :)

Oh yay! Happy to see you're interested. and see if any of the NUMEROUS suggestions grab you.