Review: Short stories
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2014
Rather than get buried in a story I flitted through without commitment. All seemed rambling reminisces by an elder person of their youth, depicting the times once lived. And like an older person whose memory wanders the tales drift off without purpose or merit except in the telling of a past experience. The title story was the best, giving vignettes of times that could be mentally imagined as individual spots of a television series about a past time.  Again, it was the telling of a grandparent perhaps, revealing their youth. Each could be embellished to develop more depth and draw the reader in more. All was well written with details that painted clear pictures, but without more dialogue and character interaction the first stories could have been drawn from a personal diary.  They weren't boring, but interesting in what was told, but the spark that makes them live rather than only be a passing memory was missing.