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For years I’ve heard the likes of Nick Hornby and David Sedaris gush over Lorrie Moore but, for no real reason beyond lethargy, I’ve never read anything by her. Having now read Terrific Mother, I can definitely see why she gets praised - this is a gem of a story! A woman accidentally kills a baby at a picnic, falls into a deep depression, hastily gets married, and sets off for a month-long academic retreat in Italy where she falls in love with a female masseuse - what a year for anyone to go thr...
i didn't mind this book as i was very intrigued by the blurb and i felt that it was well written but overall i thought it was an okay read but not really my favourite
My first book in the Faber series, and was a dark and brooding treat about a woman trying to return to normal after a tragedy. Her isolation, when everyone is so understanding and present, felt very real.
i was really excited to read this book, as the blurb seemed very interesting. It ended up being okay and a bit intriguing, but nothing special.
Actual rating: 3.5
Even though I knew it was coming, the "accident" that starts Adrienne's downward spiral still knocked me for a loop, and made me gasp aloud. How does one resume one's life after such a horrific tragedy? And yet . . . life goes on, and Moore presents an interesting look at one woman's existence in the aftermath.From Birds of America
Unique, incisive and darkly comedic but ultimately underwhelming because of a meandering structure, unsympathetic characters and a lack of direction.
I thought this sucked goose eggs.I have the book from which this short story comes from. I read it many years ago and loved the collection overall. I can’t remember what my reaction was to this story…it was the last one in the collection. I loved the front cover of the collection, Birds of America. There were several different book covers for this one book, each cover with a different bird. I was crazy enough where I have two book jackets for one book. I can’t remember if I bought two books or w...
The premise was a lot more interesting but I still enjoyed the novella!
The first page packs a punch. The rest of the story feels like it just kind of meanders along. It's expertly written and the story's aimlessness mirrors the main character's inner turmoil really well, but makes for a bit of a disappointing reading experience overall.
This was brilliantly written. It had everything I ever wanted in a short story like that. Vivid descriptions of the setting, bizarre dinner conversations, a twisted plot, and some sense of fuckery (not excluding the literal sense of that but I'm definitely referring to the more figurative sense of it). “Could you move?" he said irritably. "You're sitting on my groin.""Fine," she said, and climbed off.”I thought the narrative &/ the dialogues were so well written. I've never properly read Moore's...
This is a great short story by Lorrie Moore in the Faber Stories series. I haven’t read anything by Lorrie Moore since then mid-90s, when I read Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?. This story was first published in 1998 in the collection ‘Birds of America’.This worked for me as a great story, because I loved the humour. Not that you would expect much humour after reading the first two pages, when thirty-five-year-old Adrienne has become a nervous holder of babies and although she is told she would
The first pages are intense, I loved it. ‘Are you one of the spouses?’ We get this phrase over and over, it’s repeated to us how a woman’s identity is broken down: mother and spouse. Yet the middle pages were tedious, a bit confused and kind of a drag - part of me hopes it was written this way to reflect her mindset as she pulls herself out from her depression and back into the real world. We finally come full circle as we return back to the issue: her guilt of accidentally killing a baby, she i...
“She felt a little like she had just seen God, but also a little like she had just seen a hooker”. Beautiful.
Loved it! Wish it were longer!
Opening lines: ‘Although she had been around them her whole life, it was when she reached thirty-five that holding babies seemed to make her nervous- just at the beginning, a twinge of stage fright swinging up from the gut.’
The accident that happens within the first 2 pages really packs a punch. Even though the blurb says it is coming, it is so swift and blunt that you almost question if you read it right? Did that really happen? The rest of the story follows the main character's spiral into depression. Throughout this short story, not a lot actually happens. It is mainly concerned with the day to day details of a life that continues even after an event that makes it feel like it shouldn't. There is some really bea...
A strange book with a strange main character that reminded me of Eleanor Oliphant strangely. I am not sure who was strange though - was it she, were it all the others? I might have to re read this one because i’m not quite sure i got it, so to speak.
A perfect short story.
im just gonna give it four stars and pretend i understood it
