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tovac 's review for:
What is Not Yours is Not Yours
by Helen Oyeyemi
The title of this book pretty aptly sums up how I felt reading these stories - a distant observer trying to puzzle out what was happening in these at turns mundane but also often fantastical interrelated stories that in no way belong to me.
I always have a hard time reviewing short stories and essay compilations because I usually walk away confused and disoriented by what I just read. I don't know if that's just the nature of this writing format or of the authors I tend to select to read.
So, I'm going to rely on snippets of the reviews on the jacket of the book as they describe this book better than I ever could and then share some quotes that stuck out to me.
"Gloriously unsettling", "gently perverse", "frighteningly strange", "glimmers with pixie dust". My descriptive words in my notes were "surreal but with the feel of folklore and an element of mundanity".
Quotes:
"as they came to understand each other they learned that what they'd been afraid of was running out of self. On the contrary the more they loved the more there was to love."
"I don't feel one hundred percent sure I'm not a puppet myself"
"Instead they turned motion and intelligible speech into a currency with which personhood is earned"
P.s. "fans" of Johnny Depp should read the second story
I always have a hard time reviewing short stories and essay compilations because I usually walk away confused and disoriented by what I just read. I don't know if that's just the nature of this writing format or of the authors I tend to select to read.
So, I'm going to rely on snippets of the reviews on the jacket of the book as they describe this book better than I ever could and then share some quotes that stuck out to me.
"Gloriously unsettling", "gently perverse", "frighteningly strange", "glimmers with pixie dust". My descriptive words in my notes were "surreal but with the feel of folklore and an element of mundanity".
Quotes:
"as they came to understand each other they learned that what they'd been afraid of was running out of self. On the contrary the more they loved the more there was to love."
"I don't feel one hundred percent sure I'm not a puppet myself"
"Instead they turned motion and intelligible speech into a currency with which personhood is earned"
P.s. "fans" of Johnny Depp should read the second story