Thursday, May 31, 2007

No One Belongs Here More Than You

Title: No one belongs here more than you
Author: Miranda July
Recommended by: Ben Moss (kind of)

Ben Moss linked me to the author's website (http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/) and that made me think, I really like short stories, and I like this website. So I checked out the book and read it. Side note: I was the first person to check it out from my library, the date stamped on the edge of the book by the library was the day I picked it up, it was a cool feeling.

The book was pretty good. I really like the way she writes, and I love short stories, there's so much to think about in small chunks. The way she writes really reminds me of my friend Kelly's blog. But.... there was one thing, just one thing. Almost all of the stories ended up being about homosexual relationships, and I just wasn't expecting it. Seriously, a story would go on for like 10 pages, just talking about some person, and their life, and how they really like to eat soup, or repair radios or whatever people do, then the next thing you know, they're in a homosexual relationship, I just always never saw it coming.

Recommendation: 6/10, I really did like her writing style, but the website was more awesome than the book, so I feel (slightly) tricked.

1 comment:

Matt said...

Good idea. Readers are leaders. I like where you are going with this.

If you are getting recommendations off facebook, I need to do some updating.

Hope all is well.