This was so disappointing. I really liked "The Answers" and this book had some interesting ideas/character overlap but ultimately got boring.This was so disappointing. I really liked "The Answers" and this book had some interesting ideas/character overlap but ultimately got boring....more
I really liked Lorrie Moore's "How To Be an Other Woman" (from the love stories collection I read) but I was not wowed by this book. The stories all sI really liked Lorrie Moore's "How To Be an Other Woman" (from the love stories collection I read) but I was not wowed by this book. The stories all seemed very similar - isolated, lonely people (mostly women) dealing with husbands and families and communities. I just looked at the overwhelmingly glowing reviews here on goodreads, and hmm, I just don't get it.
5 stars - "Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens"
4 stars - the joke in "Beautiful Grade" about the professor writing Flannery O'Connor articles ("A Good Man Really IS Hard To Find," "Everything That Rises MUST INDEED Converge," "The Totemic South: The Violent ACTUALLY DO Bear It Away") -"Real Estate" (I thought I didn't like this one much until I got drunk and analyzed it)
3.5 stars - a mix of "Agnes of Iowa" and "Community Life". I felt like these two were especially similar but nearly great. -"People Like That are the Only People Here"
2 stars - basically everything else
1 star - "What You Want To Do Fine" and "Charades"...more
I know I read this book, and I think I liked it, but I don't remember it very much. it was really hot in PDX that summer.I know I read this book, and I think I liked it, but I don't remember it very much. it was really hot in PDX that summer....more
Awesome concept and a great title, but a little too full of inside joke aimed at literature professors. Very funny at times, but the narrator's voice Awesome concept and a great title, but a little too full of inside joke aimed at literature professors. Very funny at times, but the narrator's voice can become grating at times. I wish TC Boyle had written this....more
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