Wednesday, June 3, 2026--San Antonio
The News from Dublin by Colm Toibin is a collection of short stories that was just recently published. I have read novels by him previously. As usual, his writing is wonderful. Although the author is Irish (and lives in the USA), his stories in this collection take place in various locations in the world and represent different points in time. The biggest problem I had was that I had not realized it was a collection of short stories. So as I read the first, then the second, and moved to the third, I kept trying to figure out how those "chapters" were all going to eventually fit together. But I double-checked and realized that each was its own short story. I gave this collection a rating of 4 1/2 stars out of 5.
