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This is my third Margo Lanagan short story collection, and once again her storytelling has really amazed me! I still have Red Spikes to read of her collections, but I think I am going to read her new novel, Sea Hearts, next as I haven't read any of her novels yet.
Some of her stories move me (in one case to tears), some confuse me, and some are clever, whilst all of them have me thinking about them. One thing I do find is that I often need a gap between one story and the next. I can't just read ...more
I love this book so much. So beautifully written, so evocative, such powerful human observation.
How on earth do you rate a book like this one? The writing is diamond-sharp, silk-fluid, eclipse-dark.
I found it more than a little disturbing that Singing My Sister Down clearly had indigenous characters and I was constantly wondering if it had crossed the line into racism. I eventually decided that if such a thought kept recurring to me, then it probably had.
I don't like to walk presumptuously in any feather shoes, nonetheless I was overwhelmed more than once by the sense that the best story ...more
I found it more than a little disturbing that Singing My Sister Down clearly had indigenous characters and I was constantly wondering if it had crossed the line into racism. I eventually decided that if such a thought kept recurring to me, then it probably had.
I don't like to walk presumptuously in any feather shoes, nonetheless I was overwhelmed more than once by the sense that the best story ...more
As this was a Michael Printz Award winner, I expected to like it a lot more than I did. The first story, "Singing My Sister Down," was eerie and chilling. A couple of other stories were good, but overall the collection was only OK.
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