The Insecure Writer's Support Group Book Club discussion

Greetings book clubbers.

Please provide your answers to as many or as few of the questions as you’d like in the comments below. Feel free to ask more questions if you’d like.

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1. The author’s favorite short story is The Wedding because of the ending. The divorced heroine has actually engineered retribution for her unfaithful husband. What is your favorite story in the collection?

2. In Winging It and Holiday Bonding what is the common connection/theme? Did you notice any other shared themes between the stories?

3. For laughs, Bald Revelations tickles the funny bone? Why? Do you think there’s often miscommunication between a person and his/her partner despite their close and loving relationship?

* A 4th bonus question was submitted for anyone interested. Please visit Toi’s blog to add your two cents: https://wp.me/p4RYxr-2Ow - goes live at 6:00 am EST.
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Thank you, Judy Ann Davis, for inspiring these wonderful questions.

Feel free to also share your reviews and or thoughts on the book in your comments.

I finished this one and really enjoyed it but haven’t posted my review yet. Hope to do that this weekend and update it here when I do.

1. I really like Computer Junkie because it relates to events I’m experienced in my life. It’s one of those situations where you laugh because it’s so true.

2. The military theme. The author shared with me that her husband is from a four-generation military family serving in WWI, WWII, Vietnam, and their son with six deployments in the Mid-East Conflicts. I think the whole collection had a theme of “relationship dynamic.”

3. Yes, to some degree. Some couples have better communication than others, even those with great communication can have a misunderstanding from time to time. This story is funny because it’s more than a misunderstanding, but no one gets hurt.

I also the answer the bonus question over at my blog, for anyone interested.

Here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I've decided to put my review here:

I won’t be reading this. I’ve started making these decisions based on the book package (title, blurb and cover). “Up on the Roof and Other Stories: Revised with Bonus Story”: the start works, but why that specific subtitle? Why not something that will hook a reader more? And the blurb: The moment the word “unique” appears in a blurb, I cringe: Why doesn’t it fit it with the rest of the book world? And as I continued reading the blurb, I knew why: though all are short stories, they don’t fit into a single genre. And then the cover. Modern single-author anthologies are eye-catching: sometimes bold text with textures and colours competing for attention, sometimes collage-style images with the text overlaid, and if an authentic photograph is used to keep things real, the text is on the photograph (everything smoothly flowing from element to element just as with the other two examples). Though the reviews by others are positive, I’m looking at the book package alone when making my decision whether to read or not.