A review by mayar_reading_stuff
Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño

3.0

“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain”

I finally finished it, and I'm so happy I did. I've been meaning to read this for over a year because of a quote, and now I did.

I started reading this while I was reading another collection of stories by the same author translated to Arabic named "Phone Calls" and it turns out they're both sort of the same book. I was pretty excited when I knew that since I'll get to cross two books off my TBR list at the same time, but after a couple of stories they turned out to have only about 4 stories in common. The Arabic one didn't even have the one which the book is named after, but it had some cool stories about war. The English one had more emotional stories and some random stuff.
I liked "literary advance" and "Mauricio -the eye- Silva" and "Last evenings on Earth". Some parts of certain stories were pretty haunting but I didn't like the whole package.

Short stories are my least favorite form of writing, and this book didn't change that.