Reviews and Comments

A friend gave me their copy because they accidentally bought the book twice without realizing they already had this one - actually a pretty good metaphor for how I feel about the book. Not my favourite by her, but I still had an ok time reading it. Still trying to work out of a bit of a reading slump so I'm mostly going with what's easy and familiar. Maybe Rachel Cusk isn't "easy" exactly but you definitely know what you're getting into. Pages of weird drab low-key suburb/womanhood horror occasionally punctuated by passages of incredible depth or beauty or heartbreak. If you need a plot, this is not for you.

Listened to this on audiobook, which it was pretty good for. I wasn't expecting much and therefore it met my expectations. I liked the structure of weaving together all the different storylines, it was decently well written. After a while I started getting annoyed at how useless everyone was after their tech stopped functioning, it's not like ALL knowledge disappears and suddenly people are like "huh, wow, I simply cannot fathom HOW airplanes worked?" idk.

This book helped me get out of a slump of being entirely unable to read for about a month. Just one Very short (3-7 pages) story every night. The stories are so unassuming and efficient, but they pack a huge punch and the effect of them builds on each other. I loved this collection.

This was a really fast, easy and fun read, and there was a lot to like about it - the stories were good-weird and slightly surreal and I definitely just fell into it and chomped through it quickly. The author is a really talented writer and I appreciated their perspective. However, it just sorta hit me at a bad time - most of the stories take place in Montreal (where I live) and it's the middle of winter and I'm just really sick of being here and I need my reading to be more of an escape. Which is totally not the book's fault, it's just where I'm at right now.

This was extremely good. Dunno why it took me a really long time to read... i kinda stalled out really hard halfway through but I suspect it was unrelated to the book itself and more just me. The end was really fun. I wasn't planning to read the sequel but I think I will now?

Listened to this over a weekend where I REALLY needed to escape, it was fun and engaging and I definitely got really wrapped up in the world. I didn't know very much going into it but I'd read another short story by this author that I really liked and I saw it recommend a bunch / nominated for hugo, etc. I thought the setting was extremely sick and want to learn more about how the author built the world. Lots of fantasy elements which is unfortunately not totally my jam, but I enjoyed it a lot nonetheless.

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