I'm a sucker for short story collections, and this one sounded interesting. The only trouble with collections that are by different authors is that it's hardly fair to rate the book as a whole when some of the stories were good and some were not.

While none of the stories stood out as excellent to me, writing wise, I did enjoy quite a few. My favorite was probably Bettie and Carl. I did skip about three of them, as I read the first page and was not interested. Otherwise, the stories were solid enough, and it was interesting to see how each writer approached the title phrase. A good read if you like short stories and aren't too stuck in one genre.