Review: Great Little Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2013
I found this collection of short stories very intriguing. I, like some other reviewers, would have liked to see the story lines fleshed out more and the stories longer because I really like a novel I can sink my teeth into and inhabit for a good long while. But, even as short as the stories were, I didn't want the book to end. I enjoy novels that are set in another time and place. I have always enjoyed historical fiction. The further in the past the stories are and the farther from the world that I know of now, the better.  I particularly enjoyed the different versions of the "passion" theme that differed by story and character. When one hears the word passion, one thinks generally in terms of adult passion (for another human being or for a line of work), etc. I had never thought of passion in terms of a child before, and that was an enlightening view. I will definitely be purchasing and reading the two Slum novels that grew from the first short story in this book, Julianna, and am looking forward very much to enjoying them as much as I did these stories.