My first experience with Lorrie Moore was in college. We read a story called, “How to Become a Writer.” It was the first story I ever read where it was told in second person. At first I thought the idea of writing that way was beyond lunacy, but Moore pulled it off effortlessly in the story. I was g...
Ένα ενδιαφέρον βιβλίο, που αξίζει να διαβάσει κανείς. Γραμμένο με χιούμορ, με απίθανους συνδυασμούς λέξεων, έναν εντελώς ιδιαίτερο τρόπο γραφής. Σ' αφήνει με σκέψεις, και νομίζω πως αυτός ήταν κι ο στόχος της Lorrie Moore. Πολλά μπράβο για την έξυπνη, ευρηματική μετάφραση της Μαργαρίτας Ζαχαριάδου.
Tassie Keltjin is a college student who has led a fairly sheltered life. She grew up on a farm so never really held a real job, but now she needs to earn a little money and accepts a position as a nanny. Strangely, she is hired before the child, to be adopted, has arrived. Against her better judg...
So I picked up this book because it was on a list somewhere and that is how I find most books. About 25 pages in I started to think...huh, this is in WI so Troy has to be a version of Madison. Well then for the rest of the book (as someone who lives in Madison), I tried to decide if it really was or...
It has been a long time since I disliked a book this much. There was a moment on Sunday when the urge to throw it across the room and be done with it forever was so strong I had to clench my hands around the spine to keep myself from doing it. This was made more imperative by the fact that I was sta...
Favorite excerpts:"I have always felt as hidden as the hull in a berry, as secret and fetal as the curled fortune in a cookie, and such hiddenness was not without its advantages, its egotisms, its grief-fed grandiosities." "I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the...
I'd give it a 4 1/2 if I could. Some of these stories had the wit and heartbreak that Lorrie Moore does wonderfully and that resonates with me. Some a little bit less so.
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