Week One

I’ve decided to pull quotes from the stories instead, so I don’t have to think of intelligent things to say.

Also, I found a few multi-author short story compilations on my shelf I’ve never read. I usually don’t like multi-author compilations (because the style varies too widely for me to enjoy it), but this challenge seemed like a good way to make my way through a couple of these on my shelf. So stories 2 through 7 inclusive are from McSweeney’s 32.

Isn’t it nice that February divides so nicely into four weeks exactly? Anyways, number $$\iff$$ date.

WEEK ONE

  1. There Is No Time In Waterloo by Sheila Heti conceived with Margaux Williamson: People who know almost nothing about what they’re talking about are often more enthusiastic than the ones who know a lot.
  2. Oblast by J. Erin Sweeney: According to the news reports Niko is encouraged not to read, his father is responsible for the worst massacre the region has endured in this century.
  3. The Black Square by Chris Adrian: This is not MERELY a suicide.
  4. Eighth Wonder by Chris Bachelder: It was a Fun Trivia that dome engineers claimed they could make it snow.
  5. Raw Water by Wells Tower: Then Rodney went downstairs and poured himself some cereal and turned the television on.
  6. Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr: He spoke English as if each word were a tiny egg he had to deliver carefully through his teeth.
  7. Lying Under The Apple Tree by Alice Munroe: [I]t would put me in the category of such girls. Those who wore women’s oxford shoes and lisle stockings and rolled their hair.