This Is How You Lose Her is a series of short stories that deal mostly with men’s infidelity in relationships, with the exception of one of the stories being from a women’s point of view. Readers of Diaz’s first book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, will recognize Yunior, who appears repeatedly in the stories in relationships with different women. A running theme throughout these stories is how men don’t often see women as a real person. Like Yunior’s dog brother, Rafa, who sees […]
Enchanting stories from another world
Thirty-third book reviewed as part of the 130 Challenge. This one I got from Utkarsha Kotian. It’s a really rare book, but Utkarsha is my go-to person for rare books. So, after having received the book from her, I promptly got down to reading it. That wasn’t so hard considering that there were only 4 storied to read. But each of those stories was really simple and enchanting. Gulzar is a highly accomplished lyricist and scriptwriter and I’ve always wanted to read him. This was my […]
Cringeworthy Media
I don’t read a lot of (traditionally published, anyways) short stories – I tend to like my fiction long-form, give plots a chance to percolate, characters a chance to truly develop. It’s probably more to do with the way I write – never say in three sentences what you could meander on about for three pages – but I’ve always been sort of baffled by writers who could condense their writing into these bite-sized little chunks. The thing about about not particularly searching out short […]
To Infinity and Back – Sci Fi fantasy short story collection by the Earthsea lady. Some of it entertaining, some weird, all thought provoking.
My husband picked this book up when he went out to get the Earthsea books (which he still has not read all the way through, I married a heathen). There are copious author’s notes that gave me an insight into LeGuin’s writing. She writes of the “psychomyth” as her main story type which greatly helped me in not trying to understand the stories in a rational sense but to let myself feel what the reading of them engendered. This book was engrossing and each piece […]