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A carregar... For the Love of Meat: Nine Illustrated Stories (Waking Star Companion Books) (original 2016; edição 2016)por Jenny Jaeckel (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing. Short stories are not my favorite genre. They stress me out, but this was a pleasant collection. Interesting stories with diverse characters and largely happy endings. ( )Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing. This is a mixed bag of stories. They range over times and places. It wasn't until I was halfway through that I began to perk up at the stories. I do not always like stories with an O'Henry ending. There was a mystical sense to "Up on a Mountain" to which I resonated. There is a short poem embedded in the story "Yht Little Girl" which has repeating phrases that I found fetching. The Kid is rather attractive about two men in love, with travelers in Spain and a speaking puppet. It made me think obliquely about Coelho's "Alchemist." "The Teteriv was a good, a sort of Rake's Progress; and then the long-awaited snow covers the characters' actions. Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing. For the Love of Meat is a compilation of short stories that cover a range of themes. Each was set in a very different place, and sometimes a different time, with very unique characters. My two personal favorites were Stumble and Fall and the Teteriv. In the first, a girl is inspired to travel and live abroad just for the sake of the experience; she was stuck in a rut and the idea of traveling was calling to her. I've heard that call, and lived in different places, and I love to travel so the story definitely spoke to me. The Teteriv is set in a different century, in Poland, and it was just so different from the others and I enjoyed reading it.Until recently I had only read short stories from Russian literature. A few months ago, however, I started reading those of Appel and enjoyed them very much. So I decided to explore reading more modern short stories. Unfortunately, I did not find anything in this collection of interest for me (I know, I am in the minority on this). It was marketed as surrealistic, but I found little in them that I would consider to be so. Most of the stories were slow-going and seemed to seem to drag on forever when in actuality the were only a few pages long. They were also open-ended as to seem unfinished. The stories were so unmemorable that after reading the next one you could not recall the previous ones. The same-titled story For the 'Love of Meat' was the singular exception (although I saw where it was headed about a quarter of the way into it). It was an extremely short story, and cute. But I still cannot help but ponder if it would have been forgotten, too, if the title of the book had not been the same. These stories have us hopping around the world, meeting quite diverse characters in each story. We'll get to know Priests, Nuns, indentured servants, gay men, slaves, a discontented woman, as well as a Jewish Mother. "Meme" will make you feel what it was to be a slave, tugging at your heartstrings the entire time... All of the stories are full of emotion, but this one goes just a little further and pulls you all the way in! sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
This collection combines whimsical and surreal illustrations with engaging, intimate encounters that explore the depths of the human experience. Unique and diverse in setting, and with touches of magical realism, these nine stories will tug at the strings of the wandering, romantic heart, setting it delightfully ablaze. Included is a story about a nun who finds herself stranded in the Mexican desert with nothing but a few cobs of corn and a stray horse, a story of a young Londoner who travels to Vancouver where a handsome stranger entices her to take a leap into the unknown, and a story told from the stunning perspective of a slave who, as a child, witnesses the brutal murder of her mother, and survives through her connection to her brother and the natural world. The compelling storytelling takes readers across the world and through the ages, with remarkable insight and soul-moving moments, when paths cross and time unfolds. The author's language, imagery, and attention to detail plunge the reader into these memorable lives that include adventure, courage, love, loss, longing and all the hope in between. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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