Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpodFacebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover.To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button.This week we’re talking about linked short story collections. What are linked short stories, though?These are stories that are collected and somehow linked to each other. That link can be very explicit or very subtle. They can be linked by one character who threads her/his way throughout every one or who is only mentioned marginally. They can be linked by several characters. They can be linked by the setting–if they are set in a certain town or state or country. But they can also be linked by theme or symbol or a common experience of characters. They could all be about a shared experience, like parenthood or death or love. Or a combination of these things.Books Mentioned in This Episode:1- Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar2- We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby3- Good Taste by Caroline Scott4- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte5- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer6- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccacio7- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout8- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien9- Dubliners by James Joyce10- Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories by Fiona Sze-Lorrain11- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros12- Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri13- There, There by Tommy Orange14- Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange15- What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better by Jody Hobbs Hessler16- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw17- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan18- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi19- Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan20- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee21- Crooked Hallelujah by Kelly Jo Ford22- Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta23- Gwen and Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher24- Throne of Glass (series) by Sarah J. Maas25- The Bone People by Keri Hulme26- The Extinction of Irina Rey by Jennifer CroftPodcasts mentioned--Ologies with Alie Ward - https://www.alieward.com/ologies/oikologyencoreNPR's Book of the Day - https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1196979329/nprs-book-of-the-day-the-extinction-of-irena-rey-jennifer-croftMovies mentioned--Oppenheimer (2023)Spaceman (2024, Netflix)