Status Updates From The New Penguin Book of Ame...

"The Real Right Thing" by Henry James

"The Wife of His Youth" by Charles W. Chestnutt.


Really liked this one. Felt enraged at first because I thought Mr Ryder was going to be asshole but he's cool. Good for him.

"Two Friends" by Mary Wimkins Freeman.

Uh. Gay.

"The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story" by Joel Chandler Harris.


Not sure id use wonderful but fair enough.

"Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog" by Mark Twain.

Okay? I guess?

"Aunt Hetty on Matrimony" by Fanny Fern.

Aunt Hetty, you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. They'll kill you.
Quelle star.

"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Well still a banger.

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Puritans will never fucking leave me alone, omfg.

It's just me, my reading block and I.

I just keep reading stuff that doesn't work for me so hopefully this will get me back on track.

First short story is "The Little Man in Black" by Washington Irving.


I liked the satire of the little village/community, bc been there done that. Also liked its opposition with the man's isolation. Simple but efficient.