Status Updates From Winter Tales

My first reading update in ages! I've been having a bit of a slump. Never mind. Finished off GMB's short stories last night and *loved* 'The Architect'. My favourite of the collection I think.

The stories here are beginning to merge into one another. Several are rehearsals of the same nativity plot, theme, characters. Some clumsy, some beautiful, some long, some short. I would be interested to know the publication history. It seems to me as though the act of collecting them together is more interesting than the stories themselves.