false 0 2009-06-28T13:33:37-07:00 947546 275 2009-06-28T13:33:37-07:00 0 2009-06-28T08:20:15-07:00 946563 267 2009-06-28T08:20:15-07:00 "The Plums" has a little bit of everything ★★★★★ 0 2009-06-28T05:31:57-07:00 946132 234 2009-06-28T05:31:57-07:00 I did like "The Rainy Moon" — a bit slow/rambling but good. 0 2009-06-26T04:42:57-07:00 938611 136 2009-06-26T04:42:57-07:00 started in on "The Rainy Moon" and feel like I should (will?) like it but also like "whoa that's a lot of pages" 0 2009-06-07T18:19:43-07:00 856631 88 2009-06-07T18:19:43-07:00 0 2009-06-07T15:13:44-07:00 856037 79 2009-06-07T15:13:44-07:00 0 2009-06-02T18:24:27-07:00 836126 45 2009-06-02T18:24:27-07:00 0 2009-05-31T13:32:40-07:00 825751 22 2009-05-31T13:32:40-07:00 4 0 false false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 08:31:37 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 19:05:54 -0700 2009 1
The average of the individual story ratings (out to four decimal places): 3.8056

INCLUDES:

• "The Last Crop" by Elizabeth Jolley: ★★★½

• "The Débutante" by Leonora Carrington: ★★★★

• from The Gloria Stories by Rocky Gámez: ★★★

• "Life" by Bessie Head: ★★★

• "A Guatemalan Idyll" by Jane Bowles: ★★

• "The Young Girl" by Katherine Mansfield: ★★★

• "Three Feminist Fables" by Suniti Namjoshi: ★★★★

• "The Rainy Moon" by Colette: ★★★★

• "Wedlock" by George Egerton: ★★★
» The cockney makes it a bit tough to follow at points but otherwise good stuff.

• "Violet" by Frances Towers: ★★★½
» Twisted and feeling like it may require a re-read at some point.

• "The Plums" by Ama Ata Aidoo: ★★★★★

• "A Woman Young and Old" by Grace Paley: ★★★★

• "The Long Trial" by André Chedid: ★★★★

• "The Loves of Lady Purple" by Angela Carter: ★★★★★
» It's like a twisted "Pinnochio" in reverse? (and/or essentially making it a Pygmalion story?)

• "The Earth" by Djuna Barnes: ★★★★★

• "Oke of Okehurst" by Vernon Lee: ★★★½
» Surreal and bizarre and great (if a bit long and stylistically rambling).

• "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid: ★★★★★

• "Aunt Liu" by Luo Shu: ★★★★
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