The Birds and Other Stories The Birds and Other Stories The Birds and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier, originally published in 1952 as The Apple Tree by Gollancz in the United Kingdom. It includes "The Birds," which was made into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963. The anthology was published in the United States as Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Doubleday and then has been republished under the current name, "The Birds and Other Stories". Reviewing the American edition in "F&SF", Boucher and McComas noted that while nearly half the work fell into
Based on a True Story... The Brotherhood Album" and by Staind singer Aaron Lewis on his 2012 debut country album, "The Road". Lewis's version was released as a single to country radio in 2013 and peaked at No. 46 on the "Billboard" Country Airplay chart. "Based on a True Story…" received mixed to positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, a website which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 from reviews by mainstream critics, it holds a rating of 64 based on 5 reviews. Joseph Hudak of "Country Weekly" thought that some of the songs "feel rushed, as if "The Voice" coach hurriedly picked songs