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A review by caitpoytress
Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray
4.0
I finished this book last weekend but I've been away from the computer this week and am just getting around to updating.
This was my first time reading Amelia Gray, and I'm quite taken with her. Not swept off of my feet and breathless like I was when I read my first Aimee Bender collection ([b:Willful Creatures: Stories|46209|Willful Creatures Stories|Aimee Bender|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315682s/46209.jpg|2386]), but definitely in the same ballpark. Many of the stories are flash fiction length; some I wished were longer (Babies), while others were perfect in their brevity (Unsolved Mystery, The Quiet Complex). And one story (The Movement) inadvertently made me think of Radiohead, so extra thumbs up for that one. It seems kind of ridiculous to list my favorites here since it will probably consist of 2/3 of the stories in the book, but here they are anyway:
Babies
Waste
Unsolved Mystery
The Darkness
Trip Advisory: The Former Boyhood Home of President Ronald Reagan
Fish
The Cube
The Quiet Complex
Vultures
The Picture Window
The Movement
This was my first time reading Amelia Gray, and I'm quite taken with her. Not swept off of my feet and breathless like I was when I read my first Aimee Bender collection ([b:Willful Creatures: Stories|46209|Willful Creatures Stories|Aimee Bender|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315682s/46209.jpg|2386]), but definitely in the same ballpark. Many of the stories are flash fiction length; some I wished were longer (Babies), while others were perfect in their brevity (Unsolved Mystery, The Quiet Complex). And one story (The Movement) inadvertently made me think of Radiohead, so extra thumbs up for that one. It seems kind of ridiculous to list my favorites here since it will probably consist of 2/3 of the stories in the book, but here they are anyway:
Babies
Waste
Unsolved Mystery
The Darkness
Trip Advisory: The Former Boyhood Home of President Ronald Reagan
Fish
The Cube
The Quiet Complex
Vultures
The Picture Window
The Movement