4.5 stars.

I want to give this 5 stars because of how much I admire Bender's courage at and commitment to delivering the most peculiar, most charming and most tender of short stories. But it wouldn't be fair to the other 5 star books on my shelf, because one or two of these very short stories lost me and I didn't really care enough to continue with them. The good news was that the next one I turned to read did have me, completely and compassionately. My favourites were The Case of the Salt & Pepper Shakers and Off.

Read if you want to see our world differently. Read if you want to remember that literature isn't as precious as you think it is. Read if you want to fall in love with short stories again. Read, read, read.