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Other Stories and Other Stories
Other Stories and Other Stories
is a stunning collection of short stories from Ali Smith.
Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly inching us closer to the bone, storytelling itself has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous.
'Beautifully written and quietly unsettling' Big Issue
'Bold and sensitive. Smith's prose is a joy' Independent
'A wonderful collection; deceptively easy on one level with its whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold from and into one another' Herald
'Smith breathes life into her imagined words with a true understanding of the craft of the short-story writer. She dances surely and lightly over the form' Guardian
'Captures quiet epiphanies of the extraordinary in the mundane' Sunday Times
'These stories fizz with life' The Times Literary Supplement
Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly inching us closer to the bone, storytelling itself has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous.
'Beautifully written and quietly unsettling' Big Issue
'Bold and sensitive. Smith's prose is a joy' Independent
'A wonderful collection; deceptively easy on one level with its whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold from and into one another' Herald
'Smith breathes life into her imagined words with a true understanding of the craft of the short-story writer. She dances surely and lightly over the form' Guardian
'Captures quiet epiphanies of the extraordinary in the mundane' Sunday Times
'These stories fizz with life' The Times Literary Supplement
179 pages, Paperback
First published March 31, 1999
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Ali Smith
152 books5,383 followersAli Smith is a writer, born in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. She has been with her partner Sarah Wood for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her.
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November 27, 2011
Updated October 27 2011. Since rating this book last year, I have fallen headlong in love with Ali Smith and so all previous opinions on her work are now worthless. You will have to excuse me while I dig this old collection out and revise my opinion. And the comment below from Kate refers to my previous remark that Ali Smith was largely a women’s writer, which is also a crock of not-true. So please be patient. Help yourself to a panini.
March 25, 2018
What a wonderful collection. I've head it on my to-read for over ten years now, in truth: I first read a few of these stories for a class, and I wanted to read the rest but the book wasn't available at the library and it took me this long to get ahold of the copy. It was worth the wait.
It's about the telling of stories, about love and about responsibility. Technique (the superb use of POV!), theme and emotion are brought together by the author to bring forth a luminescent and powerful collection. I particularly loved "The Theme Is Power" and "A Story of Love". They read a little like a confession and a little like a meditation. They moved me.
I am even more excited to read more Ali Smith now.
It's about the telling of stories, about love and about responsibility. Technique (the superb use of POV!), theme and emotion are brought together by the author to bring forth a luminescent and powerful collection. I particularly loved "The Theme Is Power" and "A Story of Love". They read a little like a confession and a little like a meditation. They moved me.
I am even more excited to read more Ali Smith now.
May 18, 2017
As with all of Ali Smith's books, Other Stories and Other Stories is both startling and original. There is not a bad story within its pages. In fact, I'm not convinced that Smith could write a bad story if she tried. Truly masterful.
December 29, 2020
there's a quote on the front of this book, describing the stories within it as containing a "new and gentle brightness". And that just about sums it up.
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December 21, 2012There is a persistent prejudice that experimental literature, or really any literature that is conscious of form and plays with structure is something merely cerebral, read: cold and unemotional. Ali Smith’s collection of stories Other Stories and other stories proves this wrong on every single of its 180 pages, almost with every single sentence even.
Take the first story, “god’s gift” – a short (10 pages) evocation of a woman numbed by the loss of her lover. We never find out whether the lover left her or died: The story sticks mainly to the present, describing the first person narrator cleaning up her garden after returning from a trip to Greece, the few, brief flashbacks never going farther back than that vacation. On her return, she finds her garden full of dead birds brought her by some neighbour’s cat; she discovers one bird that is still alive and places it on a window sill, high enough to be out of reach of the cat. And that’s it, that’s the whole story – no plot at all, and hardly any interior reflection either, there seems to be nothing to the story at all. But it ends with the narrator wondering about the bird she saved, wondering whether it fell of the sill and died or flew away and survived:
“If there is no bird on the sill what I will do is this. I will go to the window and lean out. I will look down, and it will be there. Or I will look and it’ll be gone. It will be dead. It will have flown.”
And suddenly – possibly with some small jolt going through us – we realize that this is indeed precisely the situation the reader is left with regarding the narrator’s lover, and the story is transformed into the literary equivalent of Schroedinger’s Box (which, of course, contained a cat, like the invisible one bringing all the birds). In a metafictional twist, reader and narrator mirror each other, and with everything that has gone before this moment of realization is absolutely heartrending – rarely, if ever, has metafiction been this moving.
Contrary to what the title suggests, there is no story called “Other Stories” in this collection. But in a sense, that is what all of them (all of them, that is, except those “other stories”) are – they are about peripheral things that fit no category but “Other”, or they are about the “Other” as the other person, lover, neighbour, random stranger, and more often than not (and generally in the strongest and most deeply moving stories) there is a deep, compelling connection between the two. In another meaning, quite a few of the stories in this volume are actually two stories that intersect in a more or less (usually less) obvious way, so that they consist of a story and an other story (and it might be worth noting that Ali Smith used a similar bipartite structure for her first novel Like) – leaving it up to the reader to connect the dots, so to speak, or, in some cases, to in the first place find the dots which to connect.
This of course means that you will likely get more out of these stories if you pay some attention while reading then; attention not only to what things are said but how they are said, which will let you see how Ali Smith charges all those apparently small things, those throwaway gestures and trifling words, all that leftover, other stuff and charges it with significance and emotional depth. It is this attention to small and, to superficial look, meaningless details that characterizes this Other Stories and other stories even more than her other works. The stories in this case seem unassuming and trivial, and that all their titles are written in lower case emphasizes that even more. It is almost like a fabula docet of this collection, however, that nothing is really trivial or unimportant, and even something as utterly insignificant as a blank flower card can have life- (or at least relationship-) changing consequences. So it is only fitting the stories themselves demand a close attention to detail from their reader.
I find it hard to not think of William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence” in this context:
“To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.”
There is indeed something almost mystical about those stories – not in their content, but in the intensity of the writing, in its unremitting dedication to detail, its its embrace of the small and the neglected there is a kind of rapture that any reader who keeps a sufficiently open mind is invited to share in.
Take the first story, “god’s gift” – a short (10 pages) evocation of a woman numbed by the loss of her lover. We never find out whether the lover left her or died: The story sticks mainly to the present, describing the first person narrator cleaning up her garden after returning from a trip to Greece, the few, brief flashbacks never going farther back than that vacation. On her return, she finds her garden full of dead birds brought her by some neighbour’s cat; she discovers one bird that is still alive and places it on a window sill, high enough to be out of reach of the cat. And that’s it, that’s the whole story – no plot at all, and hardly any interior reflection either, there seems to be nothing to the story at all. But it ends with the narrator wondering about the bird she saved, wondering whether it fell of the sill and died or flew away and survived:
“If there is no bird on the sill what I will do is this. I will go to the window and lean out. I will look down, and it will be there. Or I will look and it’ll be gone. It will be dead. It will have flown.”
And suddenly – possibly with some small jolt going through us – we realize that this is indeed precisely the situation the reader is left with regarding the narrator’s lover, and the story is transformed into the literary equivalent of Schroedinger’s Box (which, of course, contained a cat, like the invisible one bringing all the birds). In a metafictional twist, reader and narrator mirror each other, and with everything that has gone before this moment of realization is absolutely heartrending – rarely, if ever, has metafiction been this moving.
Contrary to what the title suggests, there is no story called “Other Stories” in this collection. But in a sense, that is what all of them (all of them, that is, except those “other stories”) are – they are about peripheral things that fit no category but “Other”, or they are about the “Other” as the other person, lover, neighbour, random stranger, and more often than not (and generally in the strongest and most deeply moving stories) there is a deep, compelling connection between the two. In another meaning, quite a few of the stories in this volume are actually two stories that intersect in a more or less (usually less) obvious way, so that they consist of a story and an other story (and it might be worth noting that Ali Smith used a similar bipartite structure for her first novel Like) – leaving it up to the reader to connect the dots, so to speak, or, in some cases, to in the first place find the dots which to connect.
This of course means that you will likely get more out of these stories if you pay some attention while reading then; attention not only to what things are said but how they are said, which will let you see how Ali Smith charges all those apparently small things, those throwaway gestures and trifling words, all that leftover, other stuff and charges it with significance and emotional depth. It is this attention to small and, to superficial look, meaningless details that characterizes this Other Stories and other stories even more than her other works. The stories in this case seem unassuming and trivial, and that all their titles are written in lower case emphasizes that even more. It is almost like a fabula docet of this collection, however, that nothing is really trivial or unimportant, and even something as utterly insignificant as a blank flower card can have life- (or at least relationship-) changing consequences. So it is only fitting the stories themselves demand a close attention to detail from their reader.
I find it hard to not think of William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence” in this context:
“To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.”
There is indeed something almost mystical about those stories – not in their content, but in the intensity of the writing, in its unremitting dedication to detail, its its embrace of the small and the neglected there is a kind of rapture that any reader who keeps a sufficiently open mind is invited to share in.
June 1, 2019
The writing was excellent (as always) but everything else was a bit too abstract for me personally. None of her older short story collections are yet to beat the brilliant Public Library and Other Stories...
July 18, 2016
A brilliant collections, with some particular gems. There were a few stories than went over my head a little, but in general Ali Smith's writing is beautiful, intelligent and moving. I love her writing style and am so excited to go on and read more by her.
October 21, 2016
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February 27, 2022
3,5 ⭐️
August 23, 2018
Goodnight, we said, like every night, and you longingly hopelessly happily fearfully selfishly loyally temptingly knowingly passionately lovingly wordlessly kissed me
and I kissed you all of it back
goodnight.
April 4, 2023
al deze verhalen <3 zo fijn dat ik dit zeldzame boekie eindelijk heb kunnen vinden. in elk verhaal zit de verwondering over het alledaagse, simpele liefde, zoveel levensvreugde en creativiteit. mijn favoriete verhalen waren blank card, okay so far, the theme is power en met stipt bovenaan a story of love, ik wil dat hele verhaal getattooeerd, ik heb dat verhaal geleefd, ik ben het verhaal, de verhalen zijn het verhaal. een perfect boek.
“Goodnight, we said, like every other night, and you longingly hopelessly happily fearfully selfishly loyally temptingly knowingly passionately lovingly wordlessly kissed me
and I kissed you all of it back
goodnight.”
“Goodnight, we said, like every other night, and you longingly hopelessly happily fearfully selfishly loyally temptingly knowingly passionately lovingly wordlessly kissed me
and I kissed you all of it back
goodnight.”
June 11, 2021
Struggling to enjoy short stories at the moment. I think I’m going to take a break from reading the for a while.
August 9, 2023
Overall, I quite enjoyed this collection of experimental short stories. Smith plays around with some interesting literary devices, and often addresses the reader in the second-person, or even positions us at the centre. However, I found myself having trouble distinguishing the various stories and characters because they were all very similar. There was thus less depth to the book.
June 14, 2018
As an Ali Smith fan, I don't think her short stories do her writing complete justice (this was my first book of her short stories I picked up). I enjoy her witticisms and how she develops her ideas in her novels, so I just don't find the short story format is for her, because I find so many of the stories underdeveloped and truncated, which is the opposite of what you find in her novels. Most of the stories are quite forgettable with one or two exceptions and none of them will stick with me surely in a few days time. I've heard better things about some of her other collections, which I will still definitely check out.
November 24, 2019
Ali Smithi ühe esimese jutukoguna (raamatuna üleüldse) on see nõrgem kui hilisemad, ja ma kavatsesin sellele erakorralised 3 tähekest anda, aga viimased paar lugu tõid kastanid tulest. Solidaarsusneli. Aga ehk vist siiski hea, sest Ali Smithi 3 on ikkagi mulle meelepärasem kui nii mõnegi teise oma (sageli tähendab minu kolm "jättis ükskõikseks", aga Ali ei jäta mind enamasti ükskõikseks, isegi kui lugudest on midagi nagu puudu).
August 28, 2023
A WHIRLDWIND. It is so cool to see how Ali smith writes, it is one of the most disorienting but interesting books I’ve read, the whole book felt like listening to someone explain a dream they just woke up from, I’ve really never read anything like it. god’s gift, THE THEME IS POWER, and a story of love were my favorites, the theme is power gave me SHIVERS. I cant get over this one
June 28, 2010
God's Gift
I liked this. A good start to the book. I love her writing! 4/5
The Hanging Girl
This was interesting, I enjoyed it. Found it hard to get into at first but when I was there really loved it <3 4/5
Blank Card
Absolutely loved this! I loved the relationship & I just loved *everything* about it. 5/5
More Than One Story
Didn't enjoy this as much, it twas good, but I aren't a fan of stories like this - where the point of view or just the entire point changes. 3/5
Small Deaths
LoveLoveLoved this. It was funny & charming & witty & gah - just beautiful, even if it did include fleas! 4/5
Virtual
I enjoyed this also. It was funny, even though serious, but I think that made it all the more clever. 4/5
Okay So Far
Interesting. I got a little confused at one point but it was just amazing, like the rest of them. 4/5
Miracle Survivors
Loved this one. I know this contradicts myself, for I said before I don't like stories what just CHANGE. But this one flowed nicely, it had a good feel. And the mention of snow cooled me down! 4/5
The Theme is Power
I really just couldn't get into this. It started okay but it jus went off at a tangent & I didn't enjoy it. Which is a shame because all the others so far have been amazing! 2/5
Instructions for Pictures of Heaven
It was good, but it just wasn't amazing. I found myself lost & confused, even though I was enjoying it at one point. It was good, I just didn't enjoy it very much 3/5
Kasia's Mother's Mother's Story
Short, sweet, engaging. It was good. Not the best by far but better than the prior two, marginally. 3/5
A Story of Love
I loved this so, so very much. Perfect end to an amazing book. Beautiful. 5/5
Overall 3.75 average. So 4 stars. Again. For Ali Smith XD
I liked this. A good start to the book. I love her writing! 4/5
The Hanging Girl
This was interesting, I enjoyed it. Found it hard to get into at first but when I was there really loved it <3 4/5
Blank Card
Absolutely loved this! I loved the relationship & I just loved *everything* about it. 5/5
More Than One Story
Didn't enjoy this as much, it twas good, but I aren't a fan of stories like this - where the point of view or just the entire point changes. 3/5
Small Deaths
LoveLoveLoved this. It was funny & charming & witty & gah - just beautiful, even if it did include fleas! 4/5
Virtual
I enjoyed this also. It was funny, even though serious, but I think that made it all the more clever. 4/5
Okay So Far
Interesting. I got a little confused at one point but it was just amazing, like the rest of them. 4/5
Miracle Survivors
Loved this one. I know this contradicts myself, for I said before I don't like stories what just CHANGE. But this one flowed nicely, it had a good feel. And the mention of snow cooled me down! 4/5
The Theme is Power
I really just couldn't get into this. It started okay but it jus went off at a tangent & I didn't enjoy it. Which is a shame because all the others so far have been amazing! 2/5
Instructions for Pictures of Heaven
It was good, but it just wasn't amazing. I found myself lost & confused, even though I was enjoying it at one point. It was good, I just didn't enjoy it very much 3/5
Kasia's Mother's Mother's Story
Short, sweet, engaging. It was good. Not the best by far but better than the prior two, marginally. 3/5
A Story of Love
I loved this so, so very much. Perfect end to an amazing book. Beautiful. 5/5
Overall 3.75 average. So 4 stars. Again. For Ali Smith XD
November 16, 2022
"I know. I know every day, every hour is a gift. I know, yes, every moment, even these ones, this one, now, here on this derelict lawn. I know all that. I always knew it, and I am trying to remember it, each flurry of wings above a rubbly back garden, each infinitesimal hope. Everything you do, everything you see, everything you feel, every single moment, good or bad, that you get. Not you: one. Every single moment, good or bad, that one gets."
These stories are little vignettes into people's lives. There is not one overarching theme, but tragedy and love do play heavily in most of them (though rarely both simultaneously). I've read nearly all of Ali Smith's books and she never ceases to amaze me. How she can elevate the mundane into the sublime; how she can tug at your heartstrings with so few words. Like the quote above, these stories are a gift: they illustrate that everything from the common to the earth-shattering should be treasured. They make you want to strike up a conversation with a stranger, to learn about their lives, to question their motives. We all experience things in such different ways, but we all feel and care and hurt too. The wordplay is not as prevalent as in her novels, but there is enough here to tickle your fancy. Beguiling. Tragic. Lovely.
These stories are little vignettes into people's lives. There is not one overarching theme, but tragedy and love do play heavily in most of them (though rarely both simultaneously). I've read nearly all of Ali Smith's books and she never ceases to amaze me. How she can elevate the mundane into the sublime; how she can tug at your heartstrings with so few words. Like the quote above, these stories are a gift: they illustrate that everything from the common to the earth-shattering should be treasured. They make you want to strike up a conversation with a stranger, to learn about their lives, to question their motives. We all experience things in such different ways, but we all feel and care and hurt too. The wordplay is not as prevalent as in her novels, but there is enough here to tickle your fancy. Beguiling. Tragic. Lovely.
September 9, 2018
Ali Smith è decisamente una delle mie autrici preferite: amo il modo in cui, sotto la sua penna, la quotidianità nella sua meravigliosa banalità diventa straordinario motivo di riflessioni fuori dal comune.
Ali Smith parla di persone normali, che fanno cose normali, in contesti normali ... ma la sua narrazione esce sempre dall'ordinario. Il suo modo di raccontare il mondo, per meglio dire, il suo modo di vedere il mondo e di farlo vedere in un'ottica totalmente diversa è straordinario.
Una raccolta di racconti che non entra tra i miei titoli preferiti della Smith, complice anche la mia storica incapacità di affezione per le raccolte di racconti: non riesco ad entrare totalmente nella storia, ad affezionarmi ai personaggi, sono sempre troppo brevi. MA ancora una volta un'ottima prova dell'autrice.
Ali Smith parla di persone normali, che fanno cose normali, in contesti normali ... ma la sua narrazione esce sempre dall'ordinario. Il suo modo di raccontare il mondo, per meglio dire, il suo modo di vedere il mondo e di farlo vedere in un'ottica totalmente diversa è straordinario.
Una raccolta di racconti che non entra tra i miei titoli preferiti della Smith, complice anche la mia storica incapacità di affezione per le raccolte di racconti: non riesco ad entrare totalmente nella storia, ad affezionarmi ai personaggi, sono sempre troppo brevi. MA ancora una volta un'ottima prova dell'autrice.
January 7, 2020
Although I can say that I’m an Ali Smith fan, I just feel that her short stories do not do her any justice. In her novels, Smith is able to expand and develop her ideas but in the short story format she doesn’t come off as witty and the stories seem like good ideas that are brief and slightly forgettable.
That’s all I can say really. None of these stories really stuck with me but they weren’t bad either, just too brief for me to like them.
That’s all I can say really. None of these stories really stuck with me but they weren’t bad either, just too brief for me to like them.
January 28, 2018
I could read these all again and think about them more. Ali Smith's writing is easy to read, so that I am swept along faster than my thinking can go into all the resonances. The last story is about how the stories work and how they are created between writer and reader and how they relate to fragments of a continuity of people's lives interrelating in the world, through time, how they relate to inside thinking and looking outside, and to outside looking in or at.
January 10, 2017
3 and a half stars.
My favorites were 'the theme is power' and 'a story of love'.
My favorites were 'the theme is power' and 'a story of love'.
January 30, 2017
In her typical stream-of-consciousness style, Ali Smith explores the depths of the everydayness of life. But with a streak of the bizarre or a touch of magical realism. A woman lives her life, constantly seeing a young woman in a noose, hanging herself from lamp posts, clocks, and other spots. The pervasiveness of this image, which is visible to only her, takes a significant tole on her work, relationships, and other daily activities. Two women's house is infested by a particularly nefarious kind of insect, which is conveniently immune to even the most toxic of pesticides. An elderly man sees a young woman sunbathing on her roof, and the image takes him back to his youth and a particular moment of pre-sexualized tenderness with a girl in his neighborhood.
Not only does the author play with the narrative style, she also explores the truth in perception - through the use of unreliable narrators. The stories are lyrical yet disjunctive, frantic yet peaceful. The collection was first published in 1999, so it was a delight to relive some of the most prominent events of the late 1990's - Princess Diana's death, the OJ Simpson murder trial, the Bill Clinton presidency, etc. I found myself immersed in the worlds created by these stories, and was reluctant to leave. The vividness, precision of language, and deep emotion throughout the collection made it a delight to read.
Not only does the author play with the narrative style, she also explores the truth in perception - through the use of unreliable narrators. The stories are lyrical yet disjunctive, frantic yet peaceful. The collection was first published in 1999, so it was a delight to relive some of the most prominent events of the late 1990's - Princess Diana's death, the OJ Simpson murder trial, the Bill Clinton presidency, etc. I found myself immersed in the worlds created by these stories, and was reluctant to leave. The vividness, precision of language, and deep emotion throughout the collection made it a delight to read.
November 17, 2022
Unfortunately this was not as stellar as The Whole Story and Other Stories. To me, quite a few of these stories seemed like shorter versions of her novels (in the negative way). Sometimes her style makes the details, the meaning of it all, go in one ear and immediately out the other. Nevertheless, I would like to highlight my top 3 which alone could have made this into a 4-star review.
virtual: An anorexic in a hospital bed - this one very good, descriptions so delicate
okay so far: Dreaming up a life of a stranger on the train, a young girl, seemingly too young to travel alone
a story of love: The best one, stories in stories in a story, coming to a story (right?)
An old man goes past. He goes past most days when you're here. His face is lined and grey like the trunk of a tree. He smiles at you and more lines break all over his face. He goes so slowly past you that it is like his smile is in slow motion. (142)
virtual: An anorexic in a hospital bed - this one very good, descriptions so delicate
okay so far: Dreaming up a life of a stranger on the train, a young girl, seemingly too young to travel alone
a story of love: The best one, stories in stories in a story, coming to a story (right?)
An old man goes past. He goes past most days when you're here. His face is lined and grey like the trunk of a tree. He smiles at you and more lines break all over his face. He goes so slowly past you that it is like his smile is in slow motion. (142)
January 9, 2021
Early stories, already showing Smith's signature wordplay and her north star that a story is never just one thing.
Can a laugh be hushed and a whoop at the same time? Theirs was, their laughter, it was both; raucous and subdued, wild and withheld; it somehow wouldn't have been quite proper otherwise. "Virtual," p. 81
May 21, 2024
beautiful and smart and full of love. she's so skilled at playing with perspective and the subjectivity of stories to create a style that's intimate and also kind of trippy and disorienting (i love the one told from both first and third person about the girl going crazy and hallucinating.) 'okay so far' made me cry both times i read it
August 21, 2024
on mill bay with maddy and ben a snippet of sun
a perfect read for summer and traveling and love (even if im pretty lonely atm)
rly just loved it, my first ever short story collection. ali smith is incred!!! enjoyed more than boy meets girl which was also fab.
she does relationships so well SOOO GOOOD
a perfect read for summer and traveling and love (even if im pretty lonely atm)
rly just loved it, my first ever short story collection. ali smith is incred!!! enjoyed more than boy meets girl which was also fab.
she does relationships so well SOOO GOOOD
April 11, 2024
(Audiobook)
I loved these stories. Many of them forced me to have a good look at how I view relationships through a heteronormative lens.
Favourite stories:
- God’s Gift
- The Hanging Girl
- Blank Card
- Virtual
- Okay So Far (listened twice!)
- The Theme is Power
I loved these stories. Many of them forced me to have a good look at how I view relationships through a heteronormative lens.
Favourite stories:
- God’s Gift
- The Hanging Girl
- Blank Card
- Virtual
- Okay So Far (listened twice!)
- The Theme is Power
March 2, 2018
Just could not get on with this. I finished it, and then tried to start her other collection The Whole Story, and I just couldn't. I hope her two novels are better.
December 10, 2018
OT: Other Stories and Other Stories.
Leider kann man an vielen Stellen deutlich sehen, dass die Übersetzung zu wünschen übrig lässt.
Leider kann man an vielen Stellen deutlich sehen, dass die Übersetzung zu wünschen übrig lässt.
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