Status Updates From The Best of Jeffrey Ford

Mostly quite grand, with a few that just didn't work for me at all.

I can never decide: read a book of short stories front to back, like a novel? Or read a story or two at a time and take a break, do something else, and then commence reading again? I usually read through, because if the stories are great I want more, and if a story isn't so good I want to get to the next one and forget about the last one. Weak rule, but it doesn't allow for not reading through, does it? New rule?