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|author= Elizabeth McCracken
|title= Thunderstruck
|rating= 5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary= I chose to review this collection of short stories with no prior knowledge of the author's work – often the best way to do it, though I am aware that McCracken's work comes highly commended. After reading these stories, I can see why and I am already looking forward to reading more of her work.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592975</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Pete Bellotte
|summary=How do you pick a name for a short story collection? It seems to me the ''...and other stories'' add-on is like picking a favourite child, a promotion of one portion of the content above the rest. [[:Category:John Burnside|John Burnside]] has got a title story here, but such is the mood of the book that he seems to have nailed the matter, and picked the most apposite name. ''Something Like Happy'' could in a way be the title for practically every piece here.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575590</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Brief Loves That Live Forever
|author=Andrei Makine
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Our unnamed narrator is inspired to think back through his life on the girls and women he has been in love with, partly because of a time spent with an associate – a time marked by a seemingly most unremarkable encounter with a further woman – whom he deemed had never been loved. The associate, you see, had spent half his adult life in Soviet camps for political instruction – our narrator himself was an orphan in the 1960s' Soviet Union. This snappy volume takes us through episodes in several lives at different points during and since the second half of communist rule – and finally explains the import of that unremarkable encounter…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870493</amazonuk>
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