Let Me Tell You is a collection of previously unpublished essays, lectures and short fiction by Shirley Jackson. By nature, a book like this is hard to summarize since each piece has its own unique plot or approach. The selection was edited by her children, Laurence and Sarah, with items chosen for their tone and representation of Jackson’s approach to writing. Take Aways Jackson Isn’t (Just) a Horror Writer I’ve read We Have Always Lived in a Castle and…
Book Review: Mrs Rosie and the Priest
Among other reading challenges that I have taken on, I am working my way through my box set of Penguin’s Little Black Classics. Reading and reviewing these are sure to be a different experience, given their short and sometimes excepted form. But who doesn’t love a box set? Mrs. Rosie and the Priest by Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of four short stories by a well-noted Renaissance writer in the 1300s. The stories are written in a Florentine frame structure,…