Status Updates From Collected Stories

Later stories are interesting

Enjoyed Guy de Maupassant story. About him translating works of fiction into Russian for a wealthy woman.

The Awakening and In the Basement are interesting stories. Easier to follow, more autobiographical, filled with a lot to dig into, with big themes like following your dreams and pressure of fitting in.

I liked Karl-Yankel story.

Just read the story of my dovecoat

Finished red calvary tales and now moving into 1920s-1938 short stories

Finished the Odessa Stories. Started the Red Calvary stories. Realized I can listen to Russian audiobook so first two Red Calvary stories I listened in Russian, while following along in English. Makes the translations and flow in different languages interesting and keeps my Russian sharp. Enjoyable and interesting to learn about how this Russian Jewish writing was so revolutionary at the time.

Odessa stories are interesting and dense. Interesting writing style and I hadn’t read Jewish gangster stories before, much less really learned about Jewish life in Odessa, which was a very Jewish city back when he was writing these.