As a fan of Carrie Snyder's The Juliet Stories, I was wriggling in my seat over the mere idea of Girl Runner. But then the anxiety crept in: there would be no Juliet, and perhaps much of the magic was hers. Just as the same river can't be stepped in twice, an author cannot retell a favourite story. ...
I should know better...if I see it in a magazine, it's won awards or is promoted by Oprah...I won't like it. But I fell for the hype...again. Admittedly, I saw this one in a Canadian magazine, saying it was "the best Canadian lit" etc. It wasn't terrible, though I'm not really sure what made it NOT ...
The Juliet Stories by Carrie Snyder should be on all the prizelists this coming season. It is like the puppy described later in the work: tough and nippy in parts, lively and new in others.“Love for the animal rushes through Juliet for its newness, its capacity for destruction. She bends to the pupp...
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