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Amazon may be an evil capitalist machine, but this collection is pretty fantastic. Thought-provoking, each story with its own merits.
3.5 My first amazon series
"This Telling" by Cheryl Strayed: 4 stars. A really solid story about a girl who gives up a daughter to adoption."Graceful Burdens" by Roxane Gay: 4.5 stars. One of my favorites in this entire collection. Gay writes of a dystopian future where reproduction is tightly regulated based on someone's genetic fitness, and women who aren't deemed good enough to have children can check out a baby from the library."Sweet Virginia" by Caroline Kepnes: 2 stars. MC was awful, ending was weird. Nothing reall...
Prompt 44: an anthology
2.75I picked this up because of Roxane Gay's contribution as Difficult Women is one of my favourite books of hers. Gay's story was definitely the highlight of the collection. The other stories' premises were gripping but their execution left something wanting.
Really great authors included in this collection but the overall result is lackluster.
These stories were … fine. Some intriguing concepts, but mostly underdeveloped. Nice quick reads though. I read these on kindle rather than listening on audible, so I missed out on the famous narrators.“This Telling” - Cheryl Strayed - 3.5*s“Graceful Burdens” - Roxane Gay - 4*s“Sweet Virginia” - Caroline Kepnes - 2*s“The Contractors” - Lisa Ko - 3*s“Halfway to Free” - Emma Donoghue - 3.5 *s“Bear Witness” - Mary Gaitskill - 3*s“Shine, Pamela! Shine!” - Kate Atkinson - 2.5*s
Most were really compelling stories, but a few were...not so much.
I did not enjoy this collection. The 3 stars is only for the Roxane Gay piece; the rest were really not great. I was expecting this to be much more engaging with the lineup of contributors and the content focus, but...meh.
I loved these short stories. There are such interesting variations on the theme of what happens when women step out of line and take control of their own stories. The stories ranged from historic, to modern, futuristic, and sci-fi. I read the Kindle versions but I bet the Audible narrations are excellent and I may listen to those at some point. I love this kind of original series from Amazon and hope they do more of these.
Solid collection - some realistic science fiction, mostly just really solid fiction. Loved This Telling (Cheryl Strayed), Graceful Burdens (Roxane Gay), and Bear Witness (Mary Gaitskill). The other stories were good too - but, this was the highlight. This is an audible audiobook, and I really enjoyed all the readers as well.
My favorite stories were Graceful Burdens and Halfway to Free!
I reviewed each story of this collection individually. Overall, a good collection of short stories written by women exploring interesting themes. Some are set in a dystopian world, others are not. In all of them the central women characters have tough choices - though not necessarily the agency needed.I listened to these stories on audio, and would recommend not reading the blurbs as they spoil letting the tales reveal as they would.THIS TELLING, by Cheryl Strayed, read by Kristen Bell - 3 stars...
I read the individual stories, not listened to the audiobook, but it seemed wrong to list them as seperate books as they're so short.I love short stories; I'm making it a goal this year to read a lot more of them. This was a great way to try out some new authors that I hadn't read before. The stand-out stories for me were The Contractors by Lisa Ko and the absolutely stunning This Telling by Cheryl Strayed. But they were all good writing and I enjoyed reading all of them.The Contractors by Lisa
It feels like this collection couldn't decide if it actually wanted to be feminist or not.
