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Book of the Month -- 2019 > BOTM Suggestions -- May 2019 (SHORT STORY!)

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message 1: by StarMan (last edited Jan 15, 2019 06:58PM) (new)
Dec 30, 2018 09:07PM

StarMan (thestarman) | 1942 comments

If you don't like short stories, feel free to read no futher here, and take a snail vacation from our monthly group read in May :)

In a recent poll 59% of our voting Book Snails said they'd like to give a SHORT STORY a shot as a group read (and 23% said 'maybe').

Well, since MAY is officially "short story month"...

► Let us know a SHORT STORY you'd like to nominate for a group read in MAY 2019. It can be a classic tale, or a newer one.

Instructions for short story nominations:

1. Please provide story title & author, and a URL (website address) where the story can be found.

2. So as many Snails as possible can participate, it preferably should be a story that can be read FREE online (directly in web browser on your phone or computer), or as a free Adobe PDF or eBook, with NO signups or jumping through hoops required.

3. Please limit yourself to to 1 or 2 suggestions, so our voting list doesn't grow toooooo long. Thanks!

TIP: Here are a few places you can find free short stories (feel free to suggest others!): (view spoiler)


message 2: by Allison, Mod Nerd (new)
Jan 02, 2019 02:47AM

Allison boozy bookworm (bookgirl1987) | 1154 comments Mod
Good suggestion to shake things up


message 3: by StarMan (last edited Feb 08, 2019 10:27PM) (new)
Jan 06, 2019 06:12PM

StarMan (thestarman) | 1942 comments A free fantasy short:

Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss, ~35 pages
"...a dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with fairy tales..."

Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss

FREE to read online: https://www.tor.com/2016/05/04/red-as...
or 99 cents at B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/red-...
or 99 cents Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Blood-Whit...


message 4: by StarMan (last edited Feb 08, 2019 10:28PM) (new)
Jan 24, 2019 03:34PM

StarMan (thestarman) | 1942 comments Brimstone and Marmalade by Aaron Corwin, ~32 pages
"...All Mathilde wanted for her birthday was a pony. Instead, she got something quite different..."

Brimstone and Marmalade by Aaron Corwin

FREE read online: https://www.tor.com/2013/10/30/brimst...
99 cents Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Brimstone-Marm...
99 cents B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/brim...


message 5: by Erin (new)
Mar 10, 2019 06:24PM

Erin | 892 comments Mod
Wakefield by E. L. Doctorow
Published in The New Yorker in 2008 and adapted into a movie starring Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newy...


message 6: by Erin (new)
Mar 18, 2019 07:05AM

Erin | 892 comments Mod
Might also be fun to read the original version of Wakefield written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1835:

http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/...


message 7: by StarMan (last edited Apr 04, 2019 09:13PM) (new)
Apr 04, 2019 09:13PM

StarMan (thestarman) | 1942 comments Thanks for the Hawthorne suggestion, Erin :)

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The MAY poll is up at:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Write-in votes are allowed as well.

Thanks, Allison!


message 8: by StarMan (new)
May 02, 2019 08:59PM

StarMan (thestarman) | 1942 comments The discussion for the winning book   short story "RED AS BLOOD AND WHITE AS BONE" is up at:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


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