Too Much Too Young

Book Slam #2

by Patrick Neate (Editor), David Nicholls, Emylia Hall

This is the second Book Slam Annual, a collection original short stories. Each of the contributing writers was asked to choose a song and write a story based on it. This a limited edition, cloth bound hardback, individually numbered and signed by all the short story writers.

Genres: Poetry

174 pages, Hardcover

First published November 27, 2012

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's hard to review a short story collection especially one containing twelve different authors. I've no idea how these particular stories were chosen but my suspicion is that they weren't. I expect the authors simply handed in their assignments and the editor was just very lucky to get eleven—there was one I wasn't too keen on—that work very well together.

Each short story is inspired by a song title. In 'Every Time We Say Goodbye' Ella Fitzgerald's songs are an integral part of the story but for most it wouldn't matter if you'd never heard of the song (or the band in my case) before. The whole book is loosely-themed around The Specials’ 'Too Much Too Young' although there are a few old people to be found in here, too. Maybe it's my age but they were my favourites.

You can read my complete review here on my blog.