Tag: short stories

Book Reviews, Christian fiction

Twenty-One Candles (review)

Violet Nesdoly

Twenty-One Candles: Stories for Christmas by Mike Mason My rating: 5 of 5 stars Mike Mason (Canadian author of The Mystery of Marriage, Champagne for the Soul and the Blue Umbrella fantasy series for kids) has a personal tradition of writing a Christmas story every year. This book is 21 of those stories, collected into… Continue reading Twenty-One Candles (review)

Book Reviews, Fiction

Strange Faces (review)

Violet Nesdoly

Strange Faces by Linda Hall My rating: 5 of 5 stars The last time I enjoyed a book of short stores as much as I did Strange Faces by Linda Hall, it was authored by Alice Munro. Strange Faces has some similarities. Like the characters in Munro’s books, Hall’s are all ordinary people—housewives, mechanics, teachers.… Continue reading Strange Faces (review)