Winter's Tales by Karen Blixen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Karen von Blixen-Finecke, here using the pen name Isak Dinesen, has the pen names and is best known for [b:Out of Africa|781787|Out of Africa|Isak Dinesen|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1178296503s/781787.jpg|1189079]. Here she produced a collection of short stories with a faint hint of ghost stories about them. Mildly fantastic and otherworldly, they make for cozy winter time reading. Inevitably, the tales are of life-changing moments observer or experienced. These crucial moments can overtly magical ("The Sailor-Boy's Tale") or merely inexplicable like the strange meetings in "The Young Man with the Carnation". The life-long and life-affecting love of a wife figure into "The Pearls" and "Peter and Rosa". A mother taking the punishment her child cannot endure is the striking "Sorrow-Acre".
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