false <![CDATA[No One Belongs Here More Than You]]> 113429 10 Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly -- they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals their idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives. <i>No One Belongs Here More Than You</i> is a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice. 3173608 book 15 5 2007 No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories total:6989|5:1805|4:2506|3:1812|2:641|1:225| 6989 25992 10722 1749 4 22 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 18 04:37:05 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 04:45:24 -0700 2007
Miranda July: she's the lightning-rod hipster conversation of the year. I say her name at dinners and people rise from their chairs to damn or bless her. They pace and sweat and expoun...more...]]> 3 21 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 22:06:29 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 08:51:29 -0700 2007 I hadn't seen the ...more...]]> 1 18 false false Sun Jun 22 05:32:41 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 06:36:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 13 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 06:00:27 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 06:00:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 13 false false Tue Sep 18 10:13:10 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 16:17:34 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 14:19:47 -0700 2007 Author exorcises demons as characters search for love
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Everybody gets lonely sometimes, and Miranda July crams as many forms of loneliness she can think of in her first collection of stories.

The inhabitants of July’s imagination r...more...]]> 2 13 false false Thu Jan 03 16:58:43 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 12:44:34 -0800 2008 Imaginatively and intellectually lazy. These stories - like Me and You and Everyone We Know - showcase bursts of philosophy that go nowhere. There are brief glimpses of hilarity and depth, but that's it. Often, the ...more...]]> 4 8 false false Sat Jul 07 20:16:42 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 13:19:25 -0700 2007 Everybody is talking about this chick. I'm interested to see if she deserves the hype.

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And she does! First let me mention: I had heard all this talk of her being the latest hipster literary darling, but when I went...more...]]> 2 6 false false Tue Aug 28 16:07:42 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 16:21:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 5 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 08:28:08 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 08:50:19 -0700 2007
Miranda July's storys are punc...more...]]> 1 5 false false Tue Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 15:53:12 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 23:37:41 -0700 2008 finished. I bought this one in hardcover when it first came out and was excited to read it because it had great buzz and won the Frank O'Connor prize. Sadly, I struggled through every story. Perhaps I will enjoy this more on some future reread; and I'm even wil...more...]]> 3 4 false false Mon Aug 06 13:31:28 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 09:37:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 19:55:14 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 20:51:44 -0800 2008
So goes the lilting logic in Miranda July's self-fashioned world of wonder and regret and pain and hilarity. One wishes continually when flipping through this book that he ...more...]]> 3 3 false false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 03:52:10 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 03:03:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 4 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jun 22 12:42:19 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 06 11:42:38 -0800 2007
I don't think it's any secret by now that I'm not a big fan of short stories, and even less so of bound story colle...more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Feb 07 09:37:36 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 20:46:50 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 20:53:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 15:10:11 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 13:55:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 true false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 15:49:49 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 15:49:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 2 false false Thu Sep 13 07:20:20 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 07:47:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Sep 06 23:43:08 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 23:44:21 -0700 2007 Me, You, and Everyone We Know?

I did. I loved it. It was, in fact, one of my picks for the Top Five Movies of 2005.

This book, a stunning collection of melancholy stories, is written by the woman who wrote, directed, and starred in that film. If you...more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 13:45:24 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 14:20:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=598247