Russell, Rachel, and Rachael chat about our May reading challenge, Short Story Collections. We discuss life, the universe, and of course baseball. Let us know how many letters a woodchuck could write if a woodchuck could write letters.
Books we discuss include:
- “Haunted Maine” by Charles Stanfield
- “Something Rich and Strange” by Ron Rash (“Three AM and the Stars Were Out”)
- “The Illustrated Man” by Ray Bradbury (“The Veldt”)
- “The Amazing Mr. Morality” by Jacob M. Appel (“Burrowing in Exile”)
- “One More Thing” by B.J. Novak (“The Rematch”)
- “Classic American Short Stories” by Various (“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain)
- “The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories” by Penelope Lively
- “Life Ceremony” by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (“The Hatchling”)
- “Uncommon Type” by Tom Hanks
- “Normal Rules Don’t Apply” by Kate Atkinson (“The Void”)
- “When a Stranger Comes To Town” Anthology by Mystery Writers of America (“A Six Letter Word for Neighbor” by Lisa Unger)
- “Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks” by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Alexander Nabaum
- “The Brooklyn Nine” by Alan Gratz
