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A review by pattydsf
The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Brenna Yovanoff, Tessa Gratton, Maggie Stiefvater
3.0
”It is clear to me that, for many readers, the border between reader and writer is a thin, flexible one… Reading and writing are tightly linked pursuits. A story consumed today is a story created tomorrow.”
This book is a collection of stories by three authors. Simple, right? However, it is also a window into how these three women write. Not only are there a bunch of good stories in this volume, but there are notes before and around the text of the stories. This is hard to describe, but if you would pick up this collection you could see how lovely this all is. I found it to be so much fun to see the inner workings of three smart women’s brains. It was also interesting to see how working together on one webpage had helped all three writers improve their craft.
This is the first of two volumes of stories that came from the website: www.merryfates.com. I read them in backwards order. There is no real problem with that, but I think the stories in the second book were a bit stronger.
All in all, this was a satisfying read.
This book is a collection of stories by three authors. Simple, right? However, it is also a window into how these three women write. Not only are there a bunch of good stories in this volume, but there are notes before and around the text of the stories. This is hard to describe, but if you would pick up this collection you could see how lovely this all is. I found it to be so much fun to see the inner workings of three smart women’s brains. It was also interesting to see how working together on one webpage had helped all three writers improve their craft.
This is the first of two volumes of stories that came from the website: www.merryfates.com. I read them in backwards order. There is no real problem with that, but I think the stories in the second book were a bit stronger.
All in all, this was a satisfying read.