This may be a silly question, but how does one actually read short story collections? Is it the same as if reading a novel? Do you put the book down between every story? Do you look for connections between the stories? Am I supposed to read them linearly?
@Namnatulco I just finished reading the I, Robot book which is a compilation of Asimov's short stories about robots over a long period of time. That probably has more connectivity and linearity than a compilation of short stories from multiple authors. But even in that form they were only loosely related. There was a through thread of the Three Laws of Robotics and the basic technology of their "brains" but otherwise there wasn't a lot of connectivity to them. So they could have been read in any order even though I started front to back. I definitely had pauses between them but I do that with reading regular novels too.
@hankg thanks! I used to do that, but I kinda gave up pauses between novels (at least switching between multiple ones), because I started to feel lost between a bunch of books and never really finishing any while still wanting to. But it might work better for short stories.
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