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acolly 's review for:
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
by Melissa Bank
4.5 stars - This book was published 23 years ago and illustrates a world that doesn’t quite exist anymore. The publishing industry, the pre-cell phone and internet era, even the references to temp agency work, were captured in this interesting capsule.
This book has the strongest disconnect between the way it was marketed to the way I received it. I’m seeing some consensus on this in the reviews. It has been advertized as “chick lit” (a category that should be abolished and the creators of the term ashamed of themselves) which is just so far off. It's a collection of short stories that invoked such depth of emotion, imperfectly perfect characterization of the main character, and covered many truly human scopes.
It had a unique style and format — short stories that almost all portray the main character at different phases of her life, with one random story that focuses on her downstairs neighbours. That one was random but still engaging! It was so funny. I might need to re-read it and highlight all of the lines that made me react out loud.
I discovered Banks died a few months ago this year only after I had read the first couple of stories in this collection. You get such a sense of the main character Jane, that you think you’re reading the author’s life. So to hear about her death was doubly affecting.
This book has the strongest disconnect between the way it was marketed to the way I received it. I’m seeing some consensus on this in the reviews. It has been advertized as “chick lit” (a category that should be abolished and the creators of the term ashamed of themselves) which is just so far off. It's a collection of short stories that invoked such depth of emotion, imperfectly perfect characterization of the main character, and covered many truly human scopes.
It had a unique style and format — short stories that almost all portray the main character at different phases of her life, with one random story that focuses on her downstairs neighbours. That one was random but still engaging! It was so funny. I might need to re-read it and highlight all of the lines that made me react out loud.
I discovered Banks died a few months ago this year only after I had read the first couple of stories in this collection. You get such a sense of the main character Jane, that you think you’re reading the author’s life. So to hear about her death was doubly affecting.