by Aimee Bender
I adore Amie Bender. Her writing is lush, creative, exploratory, solid, memorizing, and slowly develops gentle whispers of surrealism, all the while being incredibly relatable. This collection, however, was a shuffle of the good stuff and the not so good stuff. This collection, as far as I’m conc...
The problem with Aimee Bender is that when I like her stories, I love her, and when I don't like her stories, I hate her. There's no middle ground for me. I loved her story "Faces", and "The Color Master", (which I had already read in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me) and all the other...
I am not very good at writing about short story collections, but this was pretty fantastic. I was wary of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake because it sounded a little too gimmicky for my tastes, but the buzz surrounding this collection is hard to ignore. It's also well-deserved. These stories ar...
"All these stories made my mouth water."--Alan Cheuse, NPRThis book is a fantastic collection of stores from Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. In-house favorites included the title story, "The Color Master", and "On A Saturday Afternoon."
The past few days, which are months in reader-not-reading time, I'd had real trouble getting into books that I'd normally like. Some were too dramatic, others too romantic. Prose too simple, too florid. And then I happened across this anthology, the cover of which had me seduced me in, the title tha...
Originally posted on my blog, A Lovely Bookshelf on the Wall:I should state up front that Aimee Bender is one of my favorite authors, right up there with Haruki Murakami. Even though I knew I'd likely fall in love with this new collection of short stories (and I did!), I was blown away by the extent...
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