Short Bites - subscriber special
Some small things to eat in the time it takes to read a few short stories.
We are just a week away from our next episode but thought we’d pop in with some quick reads and nourishing things to cook to tide us all over.
What happens for you when life gets busy? What do you let go of? Does your reading time become scrolling time? Do you stop cooking and start buying packaged snacks or takeaways?
We’re both under the pump at the moment, racing from one thing to another and wishing we had more time to read and cook and do all the things.
If any of this resonates, well, this is the newsletter for you! We have some ideas for things to read and cook that we hope will uplift, reflect, inspire, soothe and nourish (as needed).
No time for novels? Try short stories!
As life gets busier, I have found satisfaction and enjoyment in short stories. It’s a different experience to reading a novel; not lesser, just different. Here are three short story collections — all very different to suit different moods — or perhaps you may want to start with this collection of 22 short stories by 22 different authors from the Literary Hub website!
When you want to read about love in all its forms:
I’ve talked about Katherine Heiny on the pod before, recommending her earlier novel Early Morning Riser for helping understand the strange way families work and the ways we can make friends our chosen family. She is superb at finding humour in the darkness and love in all it’s forms. In Games and Rituals, the stories have humour in common but otherwise stand alone; from a woman who has to help her husband’s ex-wife move out of the family home, to an elderly father who mistakes his four-thousand dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eats it. Interestingly, all these stories have a grain of truth to them as Katherine divulges on the Moms don’t have time to read books podcast.
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