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A review by booking_along
The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund
3.0
2.5 stars
I think the biggest problem was me and not the book with this.
I just can not, CAN NOT!!, find a short story collection that I even like two of the stories in. I don't know why that is. But I think it's me.
The writing is very beautiful, even if I felt that all the stories were a bit overly similar and in a way the same ov and over again, the characters where pretty dull as well in my option. But the actual writing, the style and flow, was nicely done so that alone was a bit confusing to me.
And after finsihing the entire thing I am still wondering what th sense of it all was. Where there stupposed to be lessons in there? More meanings in the stories that I just didn't see or where there basically boring family moments, relationship stories and childhood memories told over and over again from different characters?
To say it short... This was not for me and I think I will not be picking up a new short story collection overly soon and just stick with actual novels, and real stories that actually tell the entire thing from start for isnish instead of picking the story up somewhere in the middle and ending there as well.
But if you are on the lookout for a collection of family and relationship kind of stories and want nice writing, give this a try and see for yourself if you enjoy it or not.
*i recieved my copy for free in exchange for a honest review through NetGalley thanks to the, and the publishers as well as the author*
I think the biggest problem was me and not the book with this.
I just can not, CAN NOT!!, find a short story collection that I even like two of the stories in. I don't know why that is. But I think it's me.
The writing is very beautiful, even if I felt that all the stories were a bit overly similar and in a way the same ov and over again, the characters where pretty dull as well in my option. But the actual writing, the style and flow, was nicely done so that alone was a bit confusing to me.
And after finsihing the entire thing I am still wondering what th sense of it all was. Where there stupposed to be lessons in there? More meanings in the stories that I just didn't see or where there basically boring family moments, relationship stories and childhood memories told over and over again from different characters?
To say it short... This was not for me and I think I will not be picking up a new short story collection overly soon and just stick with actual novels, and real stories that actually tell the entire thing from start for isnish instead of picking the story up somewhere in the middle and ending there as well.
But if you are on the lookout for a collection of family and relationship kind of stories and want nice writing, give this a try and see for yourself if you enjoy it or not.
*i recieved my copy for free in exchange for a honest review through NetGalley thanks to the, and the publishers as well as the author*