For someone on the fence, there is no right answer, no wrong answer. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar / Cheryl Strayedĭear Sugar’s advice to a person who didn’t know whether or not he wanted kids is what turned me onto her. Can he be trusted? Will others follow? This was a tense page-turner looking at the importance of community, preparedness and leadership.ģ. Eventually, a visitor arrives via snowmobile and confirms the residents’ worst fears about the state of civilization while also asking to stay on in the community. As autumn creeps toward winter, the snow piles up and panic sets in. With no communication possible with other communities, the reserve’s residents can only guess at what may be occurring down south. Over the course of a few days, cell service stops, the internet goes down, and the power goes out. This wonderfully chilling read takes place on a remote reserve in Northern Ontario. Moon of the Crusted Snow / Waubgeshig Rice I liked it, but definitely didn’t get it.Ģ. In it, Machado invents new summaries of each and every episode of Law & Order: SVU, telling a tale of a living, breathing New York City that requires regular blood sacrifices and in which everyone has a doppelgänger. One story in particular is staying with me. But as for the more nitty-gritty takeaways, I couldn’t get there. Sometimes we want to escape our bodies, often our bodies are harmed or taken advantage of against our will, sometimes our bodies fail us. Overall, the collection (as evident by the title) looks at the ways existing in a woman’s body is fraught. Machado’s writing is visceral and gorgeous but what she’s trying to say is mostly beyond me. I rarely feel stupid when reading fiction, but this collection of short stories left me feeling pretty stupid. Her Body and Other Parties / Carmen Maria Machado Well, 2020, amirite? Staying home with a 4-year-old and a baby really decreased my reading time, bringing me to my lowest total ever since starting this blog.
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