I experimented with this one, reading only one or two short stories a day, because of some advice I’d heard about consuming collections like that. While it did help my overall enjoyment of each, since I rate things by the expectations set by the book, it’s still pretty difficult for collections/anthologies to get higher than a 3 star rating for me, simply because some stories are more successful than others.

You can clearly see the themes Lispector was interested in and plenty of kernels of things that were used or expanded upon for her long form work. I’d probably have spotted even more, had I read more of them by now. But some stories included don’t feel like much of anything at all, too, conversely. So, like basically every collection it ends up being just fine, even with some that I really enjoyed immensely.