false <![CDATA[Pretty Monsters: Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255891949m/2939570.jpg 2939570 3 Illustrated by Shaun Tan. Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing—and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning "The Faery Handbag," in which a teenager's grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of "The Surfer," whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for the aliens to arrive, Link's stories are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world. Her fans range from Michael Chabon to Peter Buck of R.E.M. to Holly Black of <i>Spiderwick Chronicles</i> fame. Now teens can have their world rocked, too! 2968997 book 2 10 2008 Pretty Monsters: Stories total:499|5:175|4:184|3:100|2:34|1:6| 499 1985 1185 170 5 2 false false Fri Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 15:44:09 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 15:57:53 -0700 2008
Y'know how people will be like, 'I don't really listen to rap stuff, but I really liked that Nas album,' or whatever, and then you know that Nas album is probably not super representative of hip-hop? I don't really read fantasy, or sci-fi, but I fuckin love Kelly Link. I'm ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 04:52:56 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 18:19:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 03:23:39 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 09:02:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 21:40:04 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 20:42:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Nov 30 15:38:34 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 09:47:40 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 15:38:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 09:24:11 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 07:52:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Oct 26 23:00:58 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 31 20:37:20 -0800 2008
Stories:

The Wrong Grave - Miles Sperry digs up the wrong grave of his dead girlfriend. The dead girl follows him.

The Wizards of Perfil - I really ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 14:07:02 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 07:26:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 11:18:48 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 11:20:06 -0800 2009 2 1 false false Fri Dec 05 05:27:22 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 20 03:48:13 -0800 2009 balance out the weird and the ordinary, like they converge and depend on each other. When it's a bunch of meandering weird? not so much.

I'd read ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 22 10:37:34 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 17 08:40:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Apr 15 00:53:34 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 21:09:02 -0800 2008 anything by Kelly Link.

Um so if any of my super-cool bookstore / publishing friends stumble upon a proof or arc of this, I'll do something really nice for you in exchange. Like, uh, talk about your awesomeness incessantly.

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Omigod why haven't I gott...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 18 06:35:17 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 06:35:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Feb 13 20:22:27 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 22:52:16 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 20:22:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 22:25:31 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 23:56:49 -0700 2009 1 Pretty Monsters are all written in simple, lucid prose, and her protagonists are, by and large, teenagers and younger children. That's enough, I guess, to explain why I found this book in the "Teen Fiction" section of my local library (well, that and ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 13:47:45 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 14:05:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 09:47:40 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 07:06:26 -0700 2009
It is easy for me to choose five stars, though, based on the stories...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Mar 25 08:33:44 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 10:39:40 -0700 2009
Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing—and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning "...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 13:58:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 15:03:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 09:47:42 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 09:48:18 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2939570