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I am in awe. Also in tears. Some of these stories are just devastating. The monkeys! The dogs! The ponies! Sob. While a couple of pieces didn't quite connect with me ("My Wife Reincarnated..." and "Story Kit") and a couple connect but make me queasy (here's looking at you, "Ponies" and "Spar"), the rest move me in a way that more than makes up for those.
I've read "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" numerous times before, and still read it three times again when I started this book. I just love the way ...more
I've read "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" numerous times before, and still read it three times again when I started this book. I just love the way ...more
Not sure what I thought of this collection as a whole. Some of the stories were gems -- and I say that even of ones that are dark and shudder-inducing, like Spar -- while others made little impression on me. Kij Johnson's writing seems carefully considered and paced, words doled out in just the right amounts, but it doesn't really shine for me in general. A case of "it's not you, it's me"?
The ones that will stick in my head are Spar (gross, but visceral and intriguing, if that's the right word), ...more
The ones that will stick in my head are Spar (gross, but visceral and intriguing, if that's the right word), ...more
Dec 02, 2012
Michelle
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it was amazing
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2025 re-read: More than a decade after I first read it, I am struck by two things. 1)Kij Johnson has the ability to gently excise my heart from my chest, hold it up to me, and show me what my soul treasures as it beats in her hand. I tried to explain to my book club how '26 Monkeys' just breaks me, and I couldn't even read through this sentence for them without choking:
Eventually, even at your luckiest, you will die and then you will lose it all. When you are a certain age or when you have lost...more
18 short stories- I rated it 4.5 stars, but we can't do half stars and this book deserves 5 stars.
This author doesn't write enough! I've loved everything she's written (that I've been able to find.) Always very exceptional stories.The variety of her imagination is of the highest caliber, strange, beautiful, heart breaking, compelling. Every thing good written about her is deserved! I thank the author for such rich mind candy (crack??) :D As good as short stories as she is at novels.
26 Monkeys, A ...more
This author doesn't write enough! I've loved everything she's written (that I've been able to find.) Always very exceptional stories.The variety of her imagination is of the highest caliber, strange, beautiful, heart breaking, compelling. Every thing good written about her is deserved! I thank the author for such rich mind candy (crack??) :D As good as short stories as she is at novels.
26 Monkeys, A ...more
Nov 30, 2012
Suz
marked it as tbr
Dec 08, 2012
Aaron
marked it as to-read
Dec 20, 2012
Eric
marked it as to-read
Jan 07, 2013
Carolyn
marked it as browse-to-read-someday
Mar 10, 2013
Susan
marked it as to-read
Dec 27, 2013
Steelwhisper
marked it as to-read
Aug 21, 2014
mark monday
marked it as to-read
Feb 22, 2016
Figgy
marked it as to-read
