I love Don Quixote, so the Cervantes collection is an immediate buy for me.

Thank you so much for mentioning me. This video was wonderful. So many of these authors are new to me. Last year I started reading short stories where before I would have overlooked them. Loved It’s Fruit Cake Weather 🎄I look forward to revisiting it this Christmas.

I like the idea for this video. I’m going to go watch Quaker Cars version.

Great video! My favourite short story writers are Ray Bradbury and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

I was never really into short stories too much, however right now I am reading Jack London's short stories. After discovering how much I enjoy his writing after reading White Fang and Call of the Wild. Anyway, I am learning that I do, after all enjoy short stories and after London I'll check out some of the other short story collections I have by different authors.

Hi Matthew, great video! I read a collection of Henry James’s short (ghost) stories last fall. Other than “The Turn of the Screw”, I really liked one called “The Jolly Corner”. If you like the eerie setting of a Poe story with the psychological insight of Dostoyevsky, I recommend both of these. James wrote very long and complex sentences, so I had to go back and re-read “The Jolly Corner” a second time to really appreciate it.

@MayberryBookclub

3 жыл бұрын

I've read a few Henry James short stories but not that one, thank you for the suggestion!

very helpful

Going to order the Cervantes, thank you!

@MayberryBookclub

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

My 2024 resolution included reading at least 10 short story collections. Thanks a lot for guiding me, sir.

@MayberryBookclub

6 ай бұрын

That's terrific, I'm glad that I could be of some help! Happy New Year!

I’ve just subscribed after watching this vid of yours so my comments are a bit late! You talk about lots that I’ll add to my “to read” lists (I had no idea about Baudelaire’s prose poems!)! But I must quibble just a bit with Chekhov’s place among your HMs. He’s my fav writer & I believe he does all that you say Turgenev does in his writings about time in the countryside (can’t say he does more bc I haven’t read T yet!). You’ve prob read them but if not I encourage you to read all of P&V’s translations of Chekhov (they’re so superior to those that came before esp Garnett’s). Thanks for your reviews!!

Hello Matthew, this was an interesting discussion. There were quite a few collections that I have never even heard of, let alone read. I look forward to seeing your top ten novels.

@Leebearify

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Alan !!! Very nice to see you again, must admit I was a little worried not having seen your videos come back in January. Anyway, HI and my best to you and your wife !

@MayberryBookclub

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Alan, so good to hear from you! I'm still working on my novel list, maybe in the next day or two!

@thebooktraveller1901

3 жыл бұрын

@@MayberryBookclub Hello Matthew, I have sent you an email.

@thebooktraveller1901

3 жыл бұрын

@@Leebearify Thanks Lee! I need to upgrade my equipment before recording any more videos.

I listened to this over the weekend ( on the way to a bookstore actually) and decided to read a Donald Barthelme based on your recommendation. Wow! First story I read was "Rebecca" maybe one of the best stories I've ever read. Thank you !

@MayberryBookclub

9 ай бұрын

That's awesome, Barthelme is terrific!

@raymondrich1977

9 ай бұрын

also i'm about to finish Tender is the Night and actually agree with Hemmingway that it gets better and better. Whether that was a slight towards Fitzgerald' or not I actually think the novel DOES gets better . I'm enjoying it although you are right these are not likeable people whatsoever.

Great video. I love the Decameron, so much fun. I'm interessted in Maupassant but there are too many short story books of his! Can you recommend one to start with? Thanks. If you haven't tried Heinrich Boll, I am really enjoying 'Children are Civilians Too', a short book of really short stories.

@MayberryBookclub

3 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed the penguin classic edition of Maupassant, I believe it was A Parisian Affair and other stories. A great selection and translation. And thank you for the recommendation!

Any more modern short story collections ever appeal to you? George Saunders’ ‘Tenth of December’, the short stories in Philip Roth’s “Goodbye, Columbus” book, and anything by Raymond Carver come to mind.

@MayberryBookclub

3 жыл бұрын

I still haven't read anything by George Saunders, I've read a few books by Philip Roth but none of his short stories and I've read a good bit of Carver's stories but they have been hit or miss for me. I like some of the short stories by Will Self, I don't know what you would call him, a throwback modernist? All the best,

I'm reading Roald Dahl's short stories. You never know what to expect. Book's on my radar to get is Machado de Assis short stories and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Matthew, hello again! I'm not really sure it fully qualifies as a "short stories" collection in the literal sense but I've stumbled upon "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" by William H. Gass thanks to a review on Clifford Lee Sargent's "Better than food" channel and it got me so curious that I immediately went and buy the .epub version. I've already read some of it and it's been a really interesting, though uncommon, reading experience so far: I definitely think it's something you would definitely appreciate... As always, thanks for the really nice quality of the content you post. :)

@MayberryBookclub

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words and the recommendation!

One of my top 10 short stories of all- time written in the 1970s by Grace Paley and titled “ Wants” Worth reading and analyzing. In my opinion, a master class masterpiece. Hope you or your readership will read and study. . Grace Paley “ Wants” ( from her 1974 short story collection “ Enormous Changes At The Last Minute” Nominated for the National Book Award For Fiction). “Wants” I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine. I said, O.K. I don't argue when there's real disagreement. I got up and went into the library to see how much I owed them. The librarian said $32 even and you've owed it for eighteen years. I didn't deny anything. Because I don't understand how time passes. I have had those books. I have often thought of them. The library is only two blocks away. My ex-husband followed me to the Books Returned desk. He interrupted the librarian, who had more to tell. In many ways, he said, as I look back, I attribute the dissolution of our marriage to the fact that you never invited the Bertrams to dinner. That's possible, I said. But really, if you remember: first, my father was sick that Friday, then the children were born, then I had those Tuesday-night meetings, then the war began. Then we didn't seem to know them any more. But you're right. I should have had them to dinner. I gave the librarian a check for $32. Immediately she trusted me, put my past behind her, wiped the record clean, which is just what most other municipal and/or state bureaucracies will not do. I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago. A nice thing I do remember is breakfast, my ex-husband said. I was surprised. All we ever had was coffee. Then I remembered there was a hole in the back of the kitchen closet which opened into the apartment next door. There, they always ate sugar-cured smoked bacon. It gave us a very grand feeling about breakfast, but we never got stuffed and sluggish. That was when we were poor, I said. When were we ever rich? he asked. Oh, as time went on, as our responsibilities increased, we didn't go in need. You took adequate financial care, I reminded him. The children went to camp four weeks a year and in decent ponchos with sleeping bags and boots, just like everyone else. They looked very nice. Our place was warm in winter, and we had nice red pillows and things. I wanted a sailboat, he said. But you didn't want anything. Don't be bitter, I said. It's never too late. No, he said with a great deal of bitterness. I may get a sailboat. As a matter of fact I have money down on an eighteen-foot two-rigger. I'm doing well this year and can look forward to better. But as for you, it's too late. You'll always want nothing. He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber's snake, could work its way through the ear down the throat, half-way to my heart. He would then disappear, leaving me choking with equipment. What I mean is, I sat down on the library steps and he went away. I looked through The House of Mirth, but lost interest. I felt extremely accused. Now, it's true, I'm short of requests and absolute requirements. But I do want something. I want, for instance, to be a different person. I want to be the woman who brings these two books back in two weeks. I want to be the effective citizen who changes the school system and addresses the Board of Estimate on the troubles of this dear urban center. I had promised my children to end the war before they grew up. I wanted to have been married forever to one person, my ex-husband or my present one. Either has enough character for a whole life, which as it turns out is really not such a long time. You couldn't exhaust either man's qualities or get under the rock of his reasons in one short life. Just this morning I looked out the window to watch the street for a while and saw that the little sycamores the city had dreamily planted a couple of years before the kids were born had come that day to the prime of their lives. Well! I decided to bring those two books back to the library. Which proves that when a person or an event comes along to jolt or appraise me I can take some appropriate action, although I am better known for my hospitable remarks -Grace Paley .