KJ Hannah Greenberg
Autor(a) de The Immediacy of Emotional Kerfuffles
About the Author
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Séries
Obras por KJ Hannah Greenberg
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
- País (no mapa)
- Israel
- Locais de residência
- Israel
- Educação
- University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA (Ph.D. Communication: Rhetoric and Public Discourse)
University of Iowa. Iowa City, IA (M.A. Communication and Theatre Arts: Rhetorical Studies)
Carnegie-Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA (B.S. English: Science (Technical) Writing and Editing, and Professional Writing) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Pushcart Prize Nominee (poetry 2009)
Pushcart Prize Nominee (poetry 2011)
Membros
Críticas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Membros
- 29
- Popularidade
- #460,290
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 13
This was an Early Reviewer book, so I felt that I had to give it a decent go. If it wasn't for that, I'd have ditched it at the author's preface, one line of which read By using brief tales to vivisect marriage, family units, friendship, and passing fancies, we can: reify our ideas, celebrate the meaning we assign to our mentations, and explicate some of the responses we have to our notions' actualizations. (Seriously, publisher - what were you thinking?).
If I'd made it through that, page one of the first story would have once again made me hurl the book from me, as someone is trying to write a speech for a wedding and we hear "he meant to scribe that.... he penned that..." I thought it's sometime at school that you learn that you don't need to stretch desperately to find different words to describe the same simple action.
However, given the responsibility to review the book, I decided I had to get through 10% of it. This would have taken me to p24. I couldn't quite manage it. I did make it through to p22, the end of the fourth story in the book. What made me finally stop? It wasn't the fact that on a single page of this story, the main character was described as "the matron... the professor... the scholar... the intellectual". I could just about get through that by this point. No, it was the fact that at the end of the story I realised that I didn't have a clue what the point of the story was. Not that I understood it and was rolling my eyes because it was so irritating - as with the previous three stories. No, I just didn't get it at all.
If only it was possible to give a book a quarter star.… (mais)