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Book Review – Mostly Short, Mostly True Stories From Ireland: A Compilation of Thirty-One Short Stories

By Jim Remington Pineglenn Press: 2015 ISBN: 978-1-36-469865-2 110pp, $12.95 Reviewed by Eduardo Rey Brummel I loved the title of this collection of remembrances from Ireland, especially the “mostly true” part – after all, isn’t that the way it goes? But let me get this out of the way: I don’t consider nearly any of them to be stories. There’s no conflict, no sense of struggling, no catching of your breath as the storyteller says, “No shit, there I was …” Nevertheless, my technical nitpicking aside, this well-written collection of thirty-one (what, tales? yarns?) is enjoyable, worth the reading, worth pausing ...

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