The Girl In the Flammable Skirt
by:
Aimee Bender (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099558842 (009955884X)
Publish date: November 1st 2012
Publisher: Windmill Books
Pages no: 181
Edition language: English
really enjoyed these short stories which is my introduction to aimee bender as made you think and feel differently
This is the first book in a while which I've actually felt some hatred towards. I began to cringe every time I picked it up, but I hate to not finish a book (especially one this small; surely I can power through it I kept telling myself). So thank god that's done. Several of the stories had pretty m...
"Books are the mirrors of the soul." Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts take Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa, especially the writing style and slight drips of metaphysicalness, spirituality, and imagery, slather it with Haruki Murakami; but don't over do it. Add a dash of Karen Russell (when...
My second Aimee Bender book - and I like her more and more :) My love for short stories is relatively new, but this collection is exactly the sort of book that started that love in the first place. Short weird stories that are more about the feeling you get when reading them, than any specific story...
So good I have nothing to say. I just want to quote from the book but what a waste of time. Buy the book, seriously.