Hello everyone, it’s Christmas week! Happy holidays to you all. The book hauls keep coming and I’m nowhere near caught up just yet 😬🤷🏼‍♀️ Oh well! 🤣 Stranger Things Happen is the first collection of short stories by Kelly Link. It takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange and wonderful territory. For example, a librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses and a dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Sounds good to me! This stunning cover of Beasts Of A Little Land totally caught my eye. It’s described as an epic story of love, war and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement. It follows the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter in 1917 deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea. Finally, The Sad Part Was is the latest acquisition in my @tiltedaxisbooks collection. Translated by Mui Poopoksakul, this is a collection of witty, postmodern stories offering an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life, exploring the bewildering disjunct and oft-hilarious contradictions of a modernity that is at odds with many traditional Thai ideas on relationships, family, school and work. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Have I tempted you to pick any up? Let’s have a chat in the comments! Have a lovely week everyone 🤗😘 #bookstagramuk #scottishbookstagrammer #morebooksplease📚 #shortstorycollection📝 #strangerthingshappen #kellylink #beastsofalittleland #juheakim #thesadpartwas #prabdayoon #muipoopoksakul #readingtranslatedliterature #booksimexcitedabout https://www.instagram.com/p/CmXEdY6Lipi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=