my friend has been reading oates like mad lately, so i decided to pick up this book. the stories are great. she has such darkness, and that gives the stories remarkable depth.

still reading, but i have to say the man hating themes of her stories are starting to get repetative, so i've takren some stars away.

still plowing through...hoping that the stories i'm reading are from a time period when oates just was into hating people. i'm going to continue b/c my friend stands by her work, and it is well written, but man oh man....i don't feel very good after reading this.....

....things are still depressing, but not as depressing as the first set of stories.....will continue....

...gotta put this aside for now. got some other books i wanna read....and this is just soooo sad.

...back again....testing time at scool, so i'm hoping to read a large chunk....