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"Reflections" is a collection aptly named, for emotions playing lambent on the water of the spirit, for a mirror held up to fraught relationships, mostly of couples, and for the thoughts to which they all give rise in the reader... and the reviewer. Sharp has a particular knack for exploring and sorting out the unnecessarily complex entanglements of humans in orbit about one another. Among the best offerings here are "And the Rains Came," about the pretext for a railway "connection" that opens u
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As author, I like this book. Like the others in the set, it's easy to understand and contains a diversity of themes, though romance figures prominently.
I believe this volume will appeal to those of various ages and situations since, given the large number of scenarios, there's plenty of opportunity to find something with which to identify and empathize.
Readers have given me encouraging feedback about 'Reflections.....', and, if you like very short stories set in Australia, I think it's well wort ...more
I believe this volume will appeal to those of various ages and situations since, given the large number of scenarios, there's plenty of opportunity to find something with which to identify and empathize.
Readers have given me encouraging feedback about 'Reflections.....', and, if you like very short stories set in Australia, I think it's well wort ...more
Jun 24, 2013
Lorelei Orion
marked it as to-read
