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Karen Russell definitely writes pretty sentences. Reminds me a bit of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World," but a little bit weirder. This story fits clearly into the school of magic realism and I think within that bending of genre tradition, she goes to some great themes--the awful scourge of loneliness, the mother-son dynamic, and the fickle nature of popularity. Not sure I was completely comfortable with the story, but I think that is the point. Regardless, her p...
This was a really haunting short story by the extremely creative Karen Russell that I ate up in one gulp. I had just finished reading another book by her when I saw this short story pop up on my feed and knew I wanted to check it out. It takes place in the boggy outskirts of Ireland when our young hero Cillian, working in the bogs early one morning, finds a 2000 year old body of a prehistoric bog girl, perfectly preserved in the anaerobic mires. Cillian finds her and promptly falls in love with
Strange and sweet
(3.45-ish)Oh, how the necrophilia abounds.But the writing was nice. Gallows humor, if you will.
‘Once it had been determined that the girl was not a recent murder victim, the policemen relaxed. The chief asked Cillian a single question: “You’re going to keep her, then?”’What?! But then again after reading Caitlin Doughty’s ‘From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death’ I recall that there are other views on corpses.‘Gillian Eddowis was on a party line with her three sisters. She tucked the phone under her chin and took the ruby kettle off the range, opening a window to...
All I could think of was Tom Petty’s famous video where he dances with a dead Kim Basinger to his song “Last Dance With Mary Jane”. Also, Weekend At Bernie’s.This story is really uneven. On the one hand it’s (maybe?) about how we fall in love with the idea of a person but then as we get to know them discover either we love them more or they horrify us and we dump them. On the other it's comical and not very serious. And I’m not even sure what the story is really trying to tell us about anything....
Some all-over-the-place musings:I love Russell's diction. Her prose is gorgeous. However, I'm still caught up in the fact that she used rape as a device to further the story in her novel. Like... any basic undergrad writing class will tell you that if you use trauma to further your story, it's a copout, it's lazy, it's insensitive to the people who have undergone and live those traumas every day. I wanted to read more of her work before making that conclusion, but get the SAME feeling after read...
I wanted a quick read in between books and settled on this one. I had heard of the author but never read one of her books so I decided this could ‘test the waters’ so to speak. The positives:I really liked the beautiful and descriptive writing. It gave me a great sense of imagery that was easy to follow along with. I also liked the disturbing aspect and how unique of a story it was. It played by its own rules and wasn’t at all predictable. The humor made me audibly chuckle at times. The negative...
Man this was weird, I actually don't know what I think about it, but I know really enjoyed it... sometimes you read a short story and then instantly try track down everything else by its author because you want more, and this was one of those for me.
So different. Yes it took me a while to read, but only because I haven't had more than 5 min to myself. This story was fantastic! So different and not of a formula. Very refreshing and twisted, a perfect story for me. :)
Love: a four-letter word pregnant with a million connotations Young Cillian—unpopular, jittery and a loner—one day exhumes a two thousand year-old corpse from a bog. In the ensuing days of intense infatuation, he takes her everywhere with him, even dresses her and sleeps with her. In her frozen smile, he sees a “mysterious kindness”. In his many humiliations, he’s “soothed by her infinite calm”. He imagines what lies behind that pallid face and beneath those desiccated lids, breathing life in
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I don't know what to say about this short story. It was kind of all over the place and so are my feelings for it. It's a weird one so if you're into those, give it a shot.
morbid and funny short story about first love and dealing with your children growing up.there's a great audio version read by the author herself.
Kid falls for an older woman - way older!
This story had a fascinating flow to the language. Unique and interesting.
