Adrienne Sharp
Forfatter af The True Memoirs of Little K
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Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine (HBI Series on Jewish Women) (2022) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
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I was swept away by this as a teenager. I went through a huge phase then of reading books about ballet, alongside my lifelong horror and mystery interest. Over the years, I forgot about this book and the details blended with horror books I was reading at the same time. Two years ago, I wanted to read it again and was essentially asking about two different books. I picked the ballet one. It took -years- to find. When two goodreads administrators finally did, I was overjoyed. This is a short story anthology I remembered as a novel. No, back when I was a teenager, I read short story anthologies and poetry regularly. I've since shifted to predominantly stand-alone novels that are three hundred pages at most. Sometimes I read book series. So, this book. It's boring as shit. Yeah, there's a lot of substance abuse in it, but--boring. There's cheating and domestic violence, but the way the stories are written, readers could honestly miss that it occurred. Something I actually appreciated was how blandly eating disorders were treated--it helped the book seem more realistic, is why. I'm not advocating eating disorders. There's nothing new in each story, really. The characters all seem to have the same voice, despite being based off of real-life famous people. They all seem to have the same experiences with little variation. The stories are largely narrative passages and characters thinking a lot. They perceive the world around them languidly. I'm glad the book was split up into different sections clearly, because otherwise I would have thought it would never end. The author was a professional in the industry, and I am glad she wrote this. It just--didn't move me in the ways I was seriously hoping.… (mere)