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lauren_endnotes's review
4.0
Microfictions was a delight! Shua elicited chuckles, some gasps, and some 'ooh, clever' moments. She has written 50+ books, and is best known for these flash fictions, a genre that seems to get more "notice" in Latin American literature than in Anglophone (based on an interview Shua gave). Many themes of the stories are eerie, fantastical, and weird. Some of these flashes could also be called prose poetry... Whatever they are categorized as, I loved it. It'd be great to see more of her work in translation.
xelaruus's review
3.0
You connect intimately with some poems and suspect you will cherish them forever—I think I will always see fried eggs as eyes now! But others don’t land so solidly, and you find yourself in the company of someone who finds herself hilarious while you fail to understand many of her jokes. It comes down to personal preference like anything else.
blanip's review
5.0
An incredible collection of work. almost all of the shorts need several readings. they are small, but they are mighty.
dreesreads's review
3.0
After being thrown off by a printing error, being out of town, etc, I finally got my library's other copy of this book and was able to finish it. Section 5 Literature was completely missing from the first copy, and I enjoyed that section quite a lot.
I tagged this poetry, but really it is flash fiction. Many are very flash to the point of almost being poetry. A story in 4 lines type thing--others are over a page. This is a very quick read and hard to rate, as the topics are all over the place and the stories tend to follow a pattern of an odd twist at the end.
These would actually be great for a creative writing class to read and discuss one a week or one a day, as these are certainly a different way to tell a story. So much can be said in 4 lines, if cultural knowledge is assumed and used to let the reader interpret the rest.
I tagged this poetry, but really it is flash fiction. Many are very flash to the point of almost being poetry. A story in 4 lines type thing--others are over a page. This is a very quick read and hard to rate, as the topics are all over the place and the stories tend to follow a pattern of an odd twist at the end.
These would actually be great for a creative writing class to read and discuss one a week or one a day, as these are certainly a different way to tell a story. So much can be said in 4 lines, if cultural knowledge is assumed and used to let the reader interpret the rest.
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