Status Updates From Selected Short Fiction of L...

The publishers left so many scanning errors in this book. It's appalling and shameful. And it's really starting to get to me. It's such a distraction from the reading experience, which is awful because the stories are so good... so filled with suffering and occasional beauty.

I wish I'd bought a physical book, though. This is one of those Kindle books that is a facsimile, more or less—not optimized for Kindle reading, so it's a little frustrating, technologically.

All reading is slow reading these days. But I really like these dark (occasionally not dark) short stories.

So grim, but often quite beautiful. Russian culture's iconic love affair with suffering on full display.