Les Veilleurs du Feu
by:
Connie Willis (author)
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9782277223399 (2277223395)
Publish date: December 1st 1994
Publisher: J'ai lu
Pages no: 344
Edition language: French
As with any collection of short stories, this is a mixed bag. I wanted to read the title story as it is supposed to be the start of Willis's time travel series. I wasn't really planning to read the other stories, but I am so glad I did. I will definitely be reading more of this author.
A selection of short stories written by Willis. Interesting and readable but I'm not liking her quite as much as some people I know.
Really really really mean to read Doomsday Book this year, and maybe the rest of the Oxford Time Travel series. Really. So I thought a refresher on the short story that started it all was in order. And I may as well read the rest of the anthology while I'm here...
I read somewhere once that the other side of empathy is sadism. That came to mind here. I've read a great deal of Connie Willis over the years, and usually one notices how fundamentally kind she is, as a writer - in her characters, in the way she appears to observe the world, in the sorts of stories...
I didn't hate this collection of stories but didn't love it either. I keep wanting to really love Connie Willis' books but I never seem to get into them. I enjoyed a few stories from this - "A Letter from the Clearys," "Daisy, In the Sun," and the creepy, creepy "All My Darling Daughters," but nothi...
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