Her Body and Other Parties in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Mar 25, 2018 Ashley rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: women-s-studies, fun, fiction-novels-plays-stories

This was such a smart, spooky, sexy, strange, and political collection of stories. I read through it quickly and every single story sparked a thousand questions and ideas in my head. Read this book with your favorite feminist af friend because you will want to talk about it, I’m certain.

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Dec 23, 2017 neil rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Try to read this book without listening to the wind oustide, without running your finger along your lips, feeling their dryness and then wetting them, without anxiously awaiting talking to the first person you know who's read this just to say, "My god the ribbon the ribbon the ribbon." You will fail. ...more

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Jun 26, 2018 Ally rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018-challenge

I've always loved short stories (in fact, I think Stephen King's short stories are some of his best work - read Skeleton Crew and Night Shift immediately if you haven't). And like all anthologies, some stories in this book really work (The Husband Stitch is chilling in ways you don't even see at first), and some that really don't (Especially Heinous, a riff on SVU episodes that's about 20 pages too long). But overall, the stories remind us all how dangerous the world is even when everything look ...more

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Mar 21, 2020 Richard rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is maybe the most memorably set of short stories I’ve ever read. She’s taken a huge world of horror and myth and fantasy tropes and strained them through the sieve of a queer woman of color in a way that’s always fresh and never forced or cliche. I couldn’t believe how each story felt like a bolt from the blue but was composed of familiar ideas. This book deserves every accolade including new ones made just for it.

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