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racheladventure's review
4.0
It is amazing to me that anyone can capture such stories in so few sentences.
gazeboreader's review
4.0
Interesting, thought provoking stories. You will have experienced at least one of the vignettes in your life. Others will be foreign. However you will pause to contemplate, time, place, situation. I took my time, because I needed to stop and think about some of the stories. I am looking forward to reading Two Kind of Decay next.
h2oetry's review
3.0
Good enough to finish, and she is a fine writer, but some of the pieces fell flat. They are flash fiction, so it is a breeze to get through them. The ones that fell flattest to me were the ones short and drab enough to be possible paragraph-long Facebook status updates. If you bought the box of three books of 145 stories, you should definitely read this, but you'll probably like the other two books better than this one.
I did, however, really enjoy the 10th story, because it is about baseball, and actually described the 2012 SF Giants' historic, improbable playoff run. Manguso is a prophet. This book was published in 2007. The story reads, "As we watch on the sofa my friend and I do something we have never done before, and our team wins. In an unprecedented upset they win the next three games. The league pennant is theirs! The World Series in next, and they win the first four games as if it's nothing."
I did, however, really enjoy the 10th story, because it is about baseball, and actually described the 2012 SF Giants' historic, improbable playoff run. Manguso is a prophet. This book was published in 2007. The story reads, "As we watch on the sofa my friend and I do something we have never done before, and our team wins. In an unprecedented upset they win the next three games. The league pennant is theirs! The World Series in next, and they win the first four games as if it's nothing."
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