Monthly archives: January 2023

Miss Muriel and Other Stories

by Ann Petry
  • “Miss Muriel” ★★★½
  • “The New Mirror” ★★★½
  • “Has Anybody Seen Miss Dora Dean?” ★★★½
  • “The Migraine Workers” ★★★½
  • “Mother Africa” ★★★
  • “The Bones of Louella Brown” ★★★★
  • “Olaf and His Girl Friend” ★★½
  • “Like a Winding Sheet” ★½
  • “The Witness” ★½
  • “Solo on the Drums” ★★
  • “The Necessary
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Eleven

by Patricia Highsmith

Beacons of unpleasantness

  • “The Snail-Watcher” ★★½
  • “The Birds Poised to Fly” ★★½
  • “The Terrapin” DNF
  • “When the Fleet was in at Mobile” ★★½
  • “The Quest for ‘Blank Claveringi'” ★★½
  • “The Cries of Love” ★★
  • “Mrs. Afton, Among Thy Green Braes” ★★
  • “The Heroine” ★★
  • “Another Bridge to Cross”
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