Eh. I listened on audio. I wasn't impressed. I really wanted to like it but many of the stories were forgettable. And I wasn't a fan of the narrator.

I liked the format but there is a pair of tiddies on the cover so carrying the book around felt weird. I liked the story about the boy and the dog but there was also one about ghost nut so you win some you lose some

3.5 stars, rounded up.Kevin Brockmeier's The Ghost Variations is a quirky and creative book.⁣Happy Halloween, y’all! Hope your day has been or will be as spooky and fun as you want it to be. I know I’ll be handing out candy later and trying not to eat as much as I give out. (“Trying” probably being the operative word.)⁣⁣I’m not a fan of horror or ghost stories. I used to read Stephen King’s early stuff but somewhere down the road I got tired of being frightened, lol. So while so many of you

Before there was flash fiction, there was something called the short-short. These were stories usually 500-1,000 words in length, and usually captured a 'slice of life', commenting on human nature or a funny moment.Kevin Brockmeier does something similar here, with precisely one hundred stories about ghosts. However, he defines 'ghost' rather loosely. A ghost could be human, animal, object, or just a feeling. His book is cleverly arranged into chapters of themes: Ghosts and Memory, Ghosts and Fo...

Although this book is about ghosts, it’s not really horror. The impeccably written stories are mostly quirky, often melancholy, but hardly scary.I can’t say much about any of the stories, as each is only two pages. However my personal favorite gems include the amusing “Milo Karin,” “Every House Key, Every Fire Hydrant, Every Electrical Outlet,” the touching “Bouquet” (which actually had me tearing up a little), and “Roughly Eighty Grams.”Warning to animal lovers that a few of these stories conta...

I’d been looking forward to this for a while and it did not disappoint! A really cool-fun-good collection of microstories! Very cohesive but never too restrictively anchored to/literal with the ghost story theme. The last two sections were my favorite by a lot, and it’s always nice to go out on a high note. Highly recommended for people who liked Sum by David Eagleman (I’m sorry to say it is impossible not to compare them).

I love the idea of The Ghost Variations. 100 super-short ghost stories, divided by theme: memory; fortune; nature; time; speculation; vision; other senses; belief; love and friendship; family; and words and numbers. I also love the cover. In practice, however, I rarely feel fulfilled by flash fictions. I think this is the kind of book it would be great to have a physical copy of, to dip in and out of, choosing a story at random whenever the mood takes you. But reading it cover-to-cover isn't for...

I received this book as a free ARC via NetGalley.Sometimes profound, and sometimes scary, the short stories in this collection explore the idea of ghostliness in a range of interpretations. I found this perhaps best read in short bursts: I found the switch of interpretation from story to story a bit hard to follow. But overall, a lovely read, and it's proof of the author's skill that each one-page story managed to be so moving and beautifully written.

I listened to 10% of the audiobook before throwing in the towel. DNF

A fun collection of one-hundred speculative ghost stories flashes--some humorous, some sad, some spooky.

Beware, these ghost stories are REALLY short !I dove in this book expecting spooky reads, chills going down my spine and so on ! In fact, it was a bit cleverer than that. We get stories about ghosts, and mostly about normal people who turned into ghosts, both physically or mentally. I thought it nice to explore all the aspects of how people can be ghosts, and what ghosts could actually do IRL, instead of just exploring the traditional representation of ghosts. Some stories were really deep and m...

*ARC provided by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*The Ghost Variations turned out to be an interesting read for me, mainly because I'm so mixed on my feelings. This book is a collection of short ghost stories; one hundred of them, to be exact. Having that many stories in the collections means that they really are SHORT stories - only a couple of pages each.The book is broken down into chapters, such as Ghosts and Memory, Ghosts and Nature, Ghosts and Love and Frie...

Disappointing. I usually enjoy Brockmeier’s books, but this collection of stories is a bust. I actually fell asleep reading these. Some of the stories had cool ideas that could be expanded on into longer works, but for the most part, I did not enjoy this book.

I love the snack-sized nature of short stories, and “The Ghost Variations” seemed like a perfect fit for my tastes: a collection of a hundred two-page stories, all themed around ghosts. Perfect for a few minutes of distraction, or perhaps an hour’s worth of binge reading! And after reading the first few stories my hopes seemed fulfilled. Brockmeier writes with verve and a love of language, and he has a talent for establishing a theme and a mood in relatively few words.But with each successive st...

GHOSTS. What do ghosts really represent? Are they a form of afterlife? Are they part of nature? Or are they a “living” form like us; humans? The Ghost Variations by Kevin Brockmeir is a brilliant collection of stories that are equally thoughtful, exciting and chilling. They provide a new untouched version of afterlife!! This collection has 100 stories with concordance of themes from something as simple as colours to the wide unknown Cosmos. AMAZING is the one word I’d use to describe these stori...

Ghost stories! The title does not mislead. Very well written. I am just not into ghost stories. If you are, you will love this book. The stories are very imaginative and original. The rating, as always, is about my personal experience with the book.

Knowing that a book like The Ghost Variations can get published gives me hope and confidence that innovative, well-written literature is not dead. This book is an excellent example of flash fiction done well (unlike those written by an overrated flash fiction writer who shall remain nameless), and Brockmeier is to be commended for his imagination, skill, economy, and insights. If you like flash fiction, give this book a read.Each of the one hundred stories in this collection is no more than two

The Ghost Variations: One hundred -Haunted- Stories A ghost story for every mood and every aspect of the afterlife. 👻 This book is really fun and whimsical. Some stories may lack some backbone while others stay with you long after the last page. Some of them introduce very touching and even haunting ideas, in their own way. My only minor edit would be that the book could be shorter without missing any of its overall value. I received this ARC from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review #TheG...

(c/p from my review on TheStoryGraph) Gonna think about this one for a bit. It is for sure not above a three. I enjoyed a good chunk of these stories but there were others that..... Yeah. I'll give more detail later maybe?TW for this book include: Sexual Content, Abuse (physical and emotional), Death (including death of a parent, death of a child), and Animal death

All my reviews live at https://deedispeaking.com/reads/.TL;DR REVIEW:The Ghost Variations is a fun and imaginative set of 100 flash fiction ghost stories. I read a few each day in October and loved it. Brockmeier has created something really creative here.For you if: You like or want to read more flash fiction!FULL REVIEW: “In April, the U.S. secretary of philology held a press conference to announce the discovery of a twenty-seventh letter, dead for some centuries, that had been haunting the