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25 Stories of Life and Love in Australia Margaret Lynette Sharp 9781456597733 Books

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25 Stories of Life and Love in Australia Margaret Lynette Sharp 9781456597733 Books

25 Stories

These brisk but refreshing vignettes touch the surface tension of human encounters, seeing clearly the water beneath, and reporting that the glass is always more full than we'd hoped. Sharp deeply understands the liquid turbulence of relationships of all kinds, and offers here a clear-eyed view of the currents.

The stories are well-crafted, emotionally engaging and minimalist in form, free of nonessential characters and tedious distractions. They could not be more appealingly readable.

To summarize a minimalist short story is conceivably almost to reproduce it in full, but I've lightly sketched the outlines of a representative sample below, by way of providing a palate-teaser.

Full circle

Guy meets forlorn girl, broken up with lifelong boyfriend, offers her crisps and hope.

Keyboard Capers

A different kind of performance anxiety, healed by togetherness and an empathic audience. No false notes.

Family values

Young couple bring sensitive toddler to meet judgmental grandparents, the grandmother radiating disapproval. The frictions are delicately staged, the usual formula of accommodation breached. Their son's emotions are, in fact, more important.

Picnic on the Beach

Blind date on the beach. More than meets the blind dating eye in a seemingly incompatible prospect.

For Better or for Worse

Kate, already engaged, meets her long lost soulmate at a wedding. Not her own, and it's for the best.

Winning and Losing

More than skin exposed at a swim competition.

Full Circle (riverrun)

Funny about uncanny resemblances...

Strongly recommended. Five stars.


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25 Stories of Life and Love in Australia Margaret Lynette Sharp 9781456597733 Books Reviews

A very well written book which is hard to put down. Both my wife and myself were enthralled by its content and style.

Michael and Ginger
I enjoyed reading this book very much. As a parent, I love reading with my children and this book certainly made it possible. It is interesting and family friendly. As I began reading it was hard to put it down. As I turned each page I wanted to know what would happen all the more. This is a very engaging book. I recommend it to anyone that is in search of a excellent read.
Margaret's stories give you the feeling that there really is hope for romance and love to happen in your life. Her stories take situations that seem troubled and in the end have you smiling at the happiness. If you want an uplifting book that will not only entertain you but make your day then "25 Stories of Life and Love in Australia" is the book for you. Then you will want to have her other books as well.
Some years ago, the wife of a dear friend of mine told me to grab a few sweets available to all the guests at the end of a lovely dinner. Having chosen the wrong ones, she corrected me by saying, "Not those ones, the other ones, the small dark-chocolate ones." I picked up a few of these and they proved to be absolutely delicious morsels. That's what these twenty-five stories reminded me of. Small bits of wonderment that do not quite tell you the end; they rather let you imagine it and savor it in your own mind. "25 Stories of Life and Love in Australia" also provide the reader, especially the ones that are not Aussies, with some unique expressions and references common to that lovely land, for example, "cuppa" for a cup of tea, and kookaburra, which is a kind of bird. You will get all the flavor of the land down under, Ms Sharp makes sure of that.
In addition, she includes many funny statements, like the one pronounced by a wife when referring to her stage fright while playing the piano in front of an audience. She decided to practice a couple of tunes for quite some time until she could say that "They didn't sound too bad, either, when my audience consisted exclusively of my husband and our dog."
Well, I hope you pick up a copy of this book and enjoy its 25 short stories while drinking a nice cuppa. It is fun to read; five stars. Jake Taylor
This is really one of the first short stories compilations I have read. I did enjoy some of them, but overall it was a pretty generic experience. There was plenty of beautiful descriptions and intriguing ideas, but some of the stories fell a bit flat. I think this was a great introduction to this author's work and I am looking forward to reading more by her.

I'm not sure if it is because I don't read short stories a lot, or if it was the stories itself, but I wanted more. Some of the stories were the perfect length and flow (Fresh Pickings), and others were ended very abruptly. I think it is a good sign that I did want to know more about the characters and the stories since they are all only a few pages long. Most of the short stories definitely provide potential for expanding on them to either a novella or even an actual novel.

Some of the stories were a bit repetitive. There were many that had a similar theme among them. It would have been nice to have a bit more variety. There were only a few stories that had moments I considered to be extremely corny. Most of them were really sweet or cute. A few of them were pretty random and I wasn't sure exactly what the point was for them. Also, a couple of them had random titles that didn't entirely match the story or what I thought the message of it was.

Despite the repetitive and random stories, there were enough cute stories that helped me enjoy this. I wish some of the stories were a bit longer and expanded upon. I really enjoyed the descriptions and the setting of these stories. They were very vivid and realistic. Great collection!
25 Stories

These brisk but refreshing vignettes touch the surface tension of human encounters, seeing clearly the water beneath, and reporting that the glass is always more full than we'd hoped. Sharp deeply understands the liquid turbulence of relationships of all kinds, and offers here a clear-eyed view of the currents.

The stories are well-crafted, emotionally engaging and minimalist in form, free of nonessential characters and tedious distractions. They could not be more appealingly readable.

To summarize a minimalist short story is conceivably almost to reproduce it in full, but I've lightly sketched the outlines of a representative sample below, by way of providing a palate-teaser.

Full circle

Guy meets forlorn girl, broken up with lifelong boyfriend, offers her crisps and hope.

Keyboard Capers

A different kind of performance anxiety, healed by togetherness and an empathic audience. No false notes.

Family values

Young couple bring sensitive toddler to meet judgmental grandparents, the grandmother radiating disapproval. The frictions are delicately staged, the usual formula of accommodation breached. Their son's emotions are, in fact, more important.

Picnic on the Beach

Blind date on the beach. More than meets the blind dating eye in a seemingly incompatible prospect.

For Better or for Worse

Kate, already engaged, meets her long lost soulmate at a wedding. Not her own, and it's for the best.

Winning and Losing

More than skin exposed at a swim competition.

Full Circle (riverrun)

Funny about uncanny resemblances...

Strongly recommended. Five stars.