Two posts in one day! Haven't done that in a long time! Here's the 3rd book review I wanted to get done this weekend:
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood, Paperback: 240 pages, Publisher: Anchor (March 16, 1998),
ISBN-10: 0385491115
Source: snagged it off a friend's bookshelf (Yes, CD, I'll bring this one back!)
Rating: 3 of 5 STARS
Atwood is one of my top five favorite authors. I love her stories and the way she strings words together into something intricate and beautiful yet still simple. A friend had this collection of short stories sitting on her bookshelf just begging for me to borrow. I'm working on a short story or two myself and I had the idea of reading these and maybe dissecting them a bit to see how a master does it.
These stories didn't particularly resonate with me, though. I didn't find myself marking one passage of great writing like I usually do for Atwood. (See my review of Alias Grace and the "Good Words" I collected there.) It wasn't hard reading or boring or anything like that. These stories just didn't touch my soul like I've come to expect from Atwood. Still, I plan to pick my favorite and pull it apart for my writing edification.
So, if you're an Atwood fan, definitely read since being a fan myself, I'd like to read everything by her. But if not, and looking for a good set of short stories, I'd recommend her collection Moral Disorder and Other Stories instead. I read that pre-blogging days so don't have a review for you, but it is super-excellent!
Source: snagged it off a friend's bookshelf (Yes, CD, I'll bring this one back!)
Rating: 3 of 5 STARS
Atwood is one of my top five favorite authors. I love her stories and the way she strings words together into something intricate and beautiful yet still simple. A friend had this collection of short stories sitting on her bookshelf just begging for me to borrow. I'm working on a short story or two myself and I had the idea of reading these and maybe dissecting them a bit to see how a master does it.
These stories didn't particularly resonate with me, though. I didn't find myself marking one passage of great writing like I usually do for Atwood. (See my review of Alias Grace and the "Good Words" I collected there.) It wasn't hard reading or boring or anything like that. These stories just didn't touch my soul like I've come to expect from Atwood. Still, I plan to pick my favorite and pull it apart for my writing edification.
So, if you're an Atwood fan, definitely read since being a fan myself, I'd like to read everything by her. But if not, and looking for a good set of short stories, I'd recommend her collection Moral Disorder and Other Stories instead. I read that pre-blogging days so don't have a review for you, but it is super-excellent!
Here are a couple more of her books I've reviewed on this blog:
AND - as a help to me, here's a running list of books I've read this year but have yet to review! (@#%$^!!)
•Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (3 of 5 STARS)
•In the Time of the Butterflies (5 of 5 STARS)
•Still Alice (4 of 5 STARS)
•Let the Lady Speak (5 of 5 STARS)
•Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (4 of 5 STARS)
•Safe from the Sea (4 of 5 STARS)
•A Broom of One's Own (5 of 5 STARS)
PS. The cover above isn't what the cover of the book I read looked like, but I really liked this one instead! Which brings me to a cool site to share with you of an artist in St. Louis, Matt Roeser, who makes alternate covers for popular books. Hop over. I like his work. Here's his take on the cover of The Disappearing Spoon I reviewed earlier today! I also really liked his version of Lord of the Flies.
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