The Lottery (Tale Blazers)

Shirley Jackson has become one of my favorite authors, her talent and diversity are boundless. And some of the short stories were just terrifying and masterpieces.

a few stories (notably "Demon Lover" and "the Garden") were engaging; others were tedious and distressing - and lacking an ending. Maybe the author was as weary of writing these as I was of reading them . . .

LOOOOOVE Shirley Jackson!!!

A most upsetting story that I saved to read today because it all takes place "on the twenty-seventh of June". My newest annual ritual read.

3/5 stars
This was a good read but not particularly interesting. I think a lot of classics suffer when someone from the present reads them because media has already used them as a stepping stone and either paid homage to them or improved on their ideas, so whatever was revolutionary back then becomes old.