Review: Classic high quality Kathleen Valentine short story writing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 3, 2012
I enjoyed this book of short stories that almost had a folklorish feel to them. Written in the same style as Kathleen's "Fry Bacon. Add Onions: The Valentine Family & Friends Cookbook" stories, one felt that they are being taken back to a period of time in history within a town. What is most bizarre to me though is that the town in the story is fictional...doesn't exist! The writing is so "clear" that I felt like it was a real town. Although I had some of the same issues and not being able to develop an emotional attachment to the characters as I have with reading short stories and, by far they aren't my favorite short stories by Kathleen, they did not detract from enjoying the stories at all.