This is a collection of stories that made me chuckle and smile. I have to say, this is the first time I’ve ever used the word chuckle by choice, but it really does describe the kind of laughter the stories in this volume provoked. The characters are not particularly multi-dimensional, actually, to start, they’re rather cookie cutter. However, it’s the interaction between them and how that interaction exposes the types of people they are and the kind of relationships they want and have that make them more than just another [fill in the blank].