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The Color Master: Stories - Aimee Bender
The Color Master: Stories
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781299763548 (1299763545)
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Edition language: English
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Skinny Dipping Into Books
Skinny Dipping Into Books rated it
3.5 Some stories in this are worth the buy
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...
lisa's reviews
lisa's reviews rated it
2.0
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...
ellaminnowpea
ellaminnowpea rated it
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...
Doubleday Publishing
Doubleday Publishing rated it
5.0 The Color Master: Stories
"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."
Stuti's blog for depleting ships
Stuti's blog for depleting ships rated it
4.0
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...
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