Book #54 |
Book: The Toy Car: A Short Story | Author: Rose Tremain | |
| Source: Free First Reads download Format: Kindle |
Pages: 48 | Duration: 07/16/25 – 07/16/25 (1 day) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: fiction, short stories | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Petros Castellanos comes of age negotiating competing familial expectations. 🖌6-word review: Nicely compact and well-written short story. |
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| 💭Favorite quote: “Emma searched in what she and Dan called The Awful Cupboard, the space where they put all the things they no longer liked or needed but which they thought they might like or need one day in the future.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: lukanika, rota, scops owl | |||
| Description:* In the sun-bleached idyll of his Greek island home, 17-year-old Petros Castellanos’s future seems mapped out: he’ll inherit his father’s modest taxi fleet and continue his family tradition. However, his English mother sees a different path for her son, one that leads far from the watchful eyes of their small community. So Petros goes to London to stay with his mother’s cousin. The capital is an overwhelming city whose dazzling possibilities both terrify and enthrall him. But he must decide: will he disappoint his father to fulfil his mother’s dreams, or find the courage to chart his own course home?*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: This was a bonus free Amazon First Reads download, and being a short story by an author I wasn’t familiar with, I thought it might be a good introduction to her. It has a good pace and enough tension to keep it interesting and wondering how everything would resolve. | |||
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