It took me 3 days to read this story. baah!

This is the first time reading anything by this author; and I really didn't care for the writing style of this short story. I do love the picture of the panther, though. I liked the quote, The forest was not dark, because darkness has nothing to do with the forest—the forest is made of life, of light—but the trees moved with wind and subtle creatures.. I've always loved forests and wondered why so many stories have dark and scary forests??

A short story from the latest issue of the New Yorker, written by the author of Fates and Furies, finalist of National Book Award. I read the story so I can decide if F&F should move upper in my TBR pile. I am still undecided.

This was a short story emailed to me over 4 days, but there's a link available if you want to read the story in full.So, it's not a bad story, and it's written well, but there was nothing here that makes me want to read more by the author. I know Fates and Furies was a big deal for a bit, and Arcadia was on my to-read list for a little while, but there was nothing so spectacular (for me) to make me want more.Sorry.

A family outing story, fraught with misadventure and having an atmosphere of vague menace, a little group of people very much out of their usual element — ordinary city folk finding themselves disconnected with the familiar elements of urban life and immersed in a corner of the natural world. Groff's prose, is imaginative, nuanced; her story line, told in first person by the young mother of two small boys is tight and compact.My one real complaint is her decision to refer to her children only as...

A wonderfully uneasy tale, with throwaway lines that are more ominous than they first appear and an overall tone that makes you dread reading the next line.

Struggling with an unspecified illness, (I’d lost so much weight by then that I carried myself delicately) a mother on Spring-break vacation with her family at a remote (no internet, land-line, or accessible cell signal, and hubs has the car) Florida hunting lodge has a concussive fall while her husband is away for work. She must cope with keeping herself alert enough to be a mother to her two boys until her husband returns in two days. Motherhood is a challenge for her, even before a major head...

Slušala sam audio, što je bila greška. Smetao mi je Lorenin glas i nisam mogla da se fokusiram na priču. Čitala je skoro nezainteresovano i kao da je bez daha.Lepe rečenice, ali sam izgubila nit i poentu priče negde odmah na početku.

A short story published by the New Yorker, which I listened to in the audio version. I am not much of a fan of audio, as I find the readers pace and pronunciation, and accent distracting (not a criticism of the reader, just how it effects my listening to the story), but as it is a short story, I managed.Without giving too much away, a woman with her two young sons is staying in a remote cabin, her husband having needed to return to the city for a couple of days. She has an accident, is knocked o...

I really really wanted to like Lauren Groff, I really did. I had high hopes for “Fates and Furies” but I couldn’t get through the first half of the book. When I started this short story for class I didn’t even look at the author’s name (oops), but the writing style was so familiar and unpleasant that I went back to check half way through. Upon seeing Groff’s name everything clicked. No wonder this short story was such a struggle to get through. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m glad I only had to sit

A great short story about a woman stranded in kinda-sorta wilderness after a brain injury. While we have only one character to discover, she is marvellous. She is definitely not an exemplary human being - weak and lazy, self-loathing and over-dependant on her husband, she still loves her children (despite not being a really good mother). Very soon in the story we are introduced to a Florida panther, which is absolutely a danger for the woman and her children. Though we never get to see the anima...

WELCOME TO DECEMBER PROJECT!boilerplate mission statement intro:for the past two years, i’ve set december’s project aside to do my own version of a short story advent calendar. it’s not a true advent calendar since i choose all the stories myself, but what it lacks in the ‘element of surprise’ department it more than makes up for in hassle, as i try to cram even MORE reading into a life already overcrammed with impossible personal goals (live up to your potential! find meaningful work! learn to

This speaks to me in a lot of ways. I find it genuinely terrifying.

Though I’m not sure what our main character actually learns or if she changes at all (though maybe she actually dies?), I do love how we spend this concussed night with her as she drifts out of life and time, her children asleep around her. We begin the story with some imagery that will come into play later in the story. First is the panther which represents stalking death. Later when she’s trying to stay awake the thought of that invisible predator is ever present at the edges of her life. And

And stillState of consciousness Explodes into brain injuryEndlessly, I test myselfWhy -So that I keep my children safeOh, I might stop breathing!Who will be saved?There are no mothers and fathersI will save myself. #poemChris Roberts, Patron Saint of the Great Egret People

"The rain increased until it was deafening and still my sweaty children slept. I thought of the waves of sleep rushing through their brains, washing out the tiny unimportant flotsam of today so that tomorrow’s heavier truths could wash in." This is the perfect combination of a haunting idea and beautiful writing.

A couple goes out camping with their 2 boys. The husband gets called back when their is a suicide in the building and the water goes down to the 1st floor. The new super is away on a vacation. So our protagonist is left with her two boys and unruly dog. She changes a bulb and tells her son to hold the ladder he does but in the midst of this he battles with the dog and let's go of the ladder. She falls and gets a concussion though we are not sure if she dies. She has an out of body experience and...

”Det var en gammal jaktstuga som kapsejsat tre mil in i en buskskog. En vän till oss hade sett en puma smyga omkring bland träden några dagar tidigare. Men vi hade haft det slitigt en tid, och stugan gav frihet och ro, så jag viftade bort det motstånd jag mötte från min försiktigt lagde man och mina små pojkar, som hade önskat sig ett vårlov med eremitkräftor och drakar och wakeboardar och sand. I stället möttes de av gamla slukhål fulla av ormbunkar och risken att bli rov för kattdjur.”

Any simple household task can turn deadly in the blink of an eye. It’s was not the feared panther that brought the crisis, it was the mother changing a lightbulb and falling, blacking out and unable to care for her kids while on a camping trip and the father had to go back home for 2 days. A parent can be so busy trying to prove something to self or others that he or she imperil the life of her own children. It was not the panther that was a threat to the family it was her own insecurities.

I read this story as part of The Best American Short Stories 2017, edited by Meg Wolitzer. Lauren Groff’s writing is beautiful. A family vacations at an isolated hunting camp in Florida where a panther has been seen wandering the woods. The husband leaves to attend to an emergency and we see what happens to the wife and two kids while they’re alone. But what is this actually about? Subjectively, I think it’s about rejecting / feeling trapped by the constraints of motherhood, and feeling inadequa...