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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4955.How_We_Are_Hungry?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="How We Are Hungry" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1165516037m/4955.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4955.How_We_Are_Hungry?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">How We Are Hungry</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3371.Dave_Eggers">Dave Eggers</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15058339?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>I'm a sucker for the short story. I think that often it takes as much skill to be succint in writing as it does to write whole novels. So, of course, I enjoyed this book. <br/> <br/>Favorite stories: "Notes for a Story of a Man who will not Die Alone," "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly," "After I was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned." These are all slightly longer short stories, so they feel... more important? than some of the shorter (one or two page) stories, which are really just snippets. "Notes..." -- really, notes for an "upcoming" short story -- takes a risk, but ends up being one of the most successful and entertaining stories in the collection. <br/> <br/>That, however, does not mean that it is without its flaws. The story "There are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself," for example, is gimmacky (without giving anything away). And the placement of the first story seems wrong, if only because it's not one of the more engaging stories. Finally, I cannot get over the fact that I can't remember where/when I read/heard the final story, After I was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned; it's a total mystery. <br/> <br/>That being said, How We are Hungry is a fast read, and I would highly recommend it to any fan of short stories, aesthetically pleasing books (the copy I checked out is beautiful -- another thing I'm a sucker for) or Dave Eggers. <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/786192?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>