Kelly Link

Stranger things happen

This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear. These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. Every story contains a secret prize. Each story was written especially for you.

Stranger Things Happen

Sarah Escorsa

I chose to read this book because of the good ratings and reviews here but I simply didn't like it. It is not particularly bad or badly written, it's just that I couldn't find any of the stories interesting. I kept reading until the end because every time I finished a story I thought "oh maybe I will enjoy the next one" but frankly I never did. 

I bought Link's other collection of short stories, Magic for Beginners, along with this book and I'm hoping there will be a story or two that I like in there!

Eric Jacobsen

Jeff James

Grace

André Nóbrega

Sarah Agterhuis

Collects eleven short stories incorporating ghosts, aliens, and the living dead, including the stories "Survivor's Ball, or, The Donner Party" and "Louise's Ghost".

Stranger things happen

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