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while this is a short story and not a full novel i'm still going to log it, rate it, and review it as i would a full length book. i loved this! it had great pacing, stayed on each scene the perfect amount of time. i've heard that this short story was the grounds for my year of rest and relaxation by the same author so maybe i'll read that in the future! definitely one of my favorite short stories ive read thus far! :)
https://rogueliterarysociety.com/f/be...I don’t subscribe to The Paris Review so I miss out on award notifications such as the Plimpton Prize for Fiction. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Bettering Myself happens to be one of those winners. Loren Stein in her Introduction links Ottessa Moshfegh’s name to William Faulkner’s which is a bit of a stretch as there really isn’t any “unnameable quality” in Bettering Myself to make Moshfegh “sound unique” enough to gain entry into that same literary fraternity. But w...
So what happens when you go through Ottessa Moshfegh's works? You find more short stories, and you keep on reading...This one is a bit darker than the others I've read, about an alcoholic teacher in a hopeless, futureless situation. Great character development once again.I'm starting to think that Moshfegh is like literary crack.Read it online here.Read this for our May Short Story Month Marathon, a personal challenge during which Alex and I will be going through our short story collection in th...
One of my favourite contemporary writers. Love discovering Ottessa Moshfegh’s older short stories after devouring her two novels and one novella.
I dont know how to rate this really..Ive been on a review reading binge of all the picks of best books of 2018 here. I ended up going on a review binge of Otessa's books too. Somehow I landed on a review leading to an online excerpt of this particular story. I couldn't stop reading. It was addictive and like a car crash. Miss Mooney is a mess. Entertaining overall..
“I put on some music. “Bailar,” I said to myself. Look, I’m speaking Spanish. My mind is fixing itself, I thought. Everything is going to be okay.”
Originally I gave this three stars but mostly because I felt guilty about how I didn't get it. Alcoholic teacher experiencing breakdown? I got that part. And it was kinda well written. But maybe I just like novels better.I also feel guilty about counting this as a book on my reading challenge because it is like 5 pages long. But since I missed the target last year I need all the help I can get.
“This felt like a great occasion. I can’t explain it. I felt immediately endowed with great power. I plunked my straw in and sucked. It was good. It was the best thing I’d ever tasted. I thought of ordering another one, for when I’d finished that one. But that would be exploitive, I thought. Better let this one have its day. Okay, I thought. One at a time. One Diet Coke at a time.”Wow. What a banger of a short story. Having fallen in love with the deeply talented Ottessa Moshfegh’s writing this...
This short story from the ‘one-of-a- kind’ Ottessa Moshfegh ….“Bettering Myself” was a recipient of the Plimpton Prize for Fiction that ‘The Paris Review’ gives each year (a $10,000 award) … The narrator of ‘Bettering Myself” was a problem drinker and Catholic school math teacher who said to her students, “Most people have had anal sex. Don’t look so surprised”. There’s humor in this story but it’s also very sad. “Every year the kids had to take a big exam that let the state know just how badly...
Oh, okay, there were a few fine times. One day I went to the park and watched a squirrel run up a tree. A cloud flew around in the sky. I sat down on a patch of dry yellow grass and let the sun warm my back. I may have even tried to do a crossword puzzle. Once, I found a twenty-dollar bill in a pair of old jeans. I drank a glass of water. It got to be summer. The days got intolerably long. School let out. The boyfriend graduated and moved back to Tennessee. I bought an air conditioner and paid
An interesting addition to my knowledge of Moshfegh's works. Still the unnamed, unlikable, female protagonist whom we cringe for as we relate to the most intimate, crawling parts of their life. I needed some new Moshfegh and was glad to have found this, even if it was from years ago. Plus, there is a pretty niche portrayal of alcoholism and individuality that made me both laugh and weep.
Picked up her short stories book “Homesick from Another World” since they didn’t have another book of hers at my library. This is the first short story and the book and I was shocked. I personally have never read anything so dark and yet true and real. Ottesa writes everything down onto the page, a huge dump of words. I found myself relating to the un relatable. Looking forward to reading more of her work.
