Karen Russell is one of the most talented and creative short story writers I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. The title story of this collection is one of my favorite short stories ever, and the rest of the collection does not disappoint. In these quirky magical realism tales, boys frantically...
Let me say straight out that I love Karen Russell’s use of language and her knack for creating these magical tales. St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves is full of inventive and fun stories. Whether her characters are wrestling alligators or navigating giant conch shells or awkwardly watching w...
This seems to be a slightly unpopular opinion, I'm discovering - but I adore Karen Russell's work. I had some issues with [b:Swamplandia!|11252905|Swamplandia!|Karen Russell|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327933638s/11252905.jpg|13438215] but that book has stuck with me far longer than it had any ri...
It's always hard to generalise about a collection of short stories. I loved a few of them - mainly those that had fewer fantasy elements (The Star-Gazer’s Log of Summer-Time Crime, Out to Sea, The City of Shells). These conveyed loneliness in a moving way. They also showed in different ways how peop...
I really couldn't get into these stories. It felt like the author was trying too hard, and, instead of ending up with naturally quirky, and wonderfully weird, it was forced and contrived. For me the stories, and the characters fell flat.
Another reviewer said it well; these stories are quirky, but the voice Russell uses is similar with each story.Some of the imagery she uses is wonderful. Here's one that I especially enjoyed:"His amputation gives (him) a flamingular majesty. He rears up before her on his one remaining leg, feather...
St. Lucy' Home for Girls Raised by Wolves is a collection of short stories by Karen Russell. All of the stories have a hint of the supernatural. I'm not really sure how to review this although I liked it. It was a rather strange collection of characters and circumstances and I have to admit maybe so...
Karen Russell takes a lot of the trends that are popular in literary fiction and uses them right. Her stories are full of funny, hearbreaking, and strangely unique details without usually feeling too quirky for the sake of being quirky, and her stories weave the absurd into the every day in a way th...
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