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The average rating for When the Messenger Is Hot: Stories based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.
Review # 1 was written on 2016-06-12 00:00:00![]() okay folks LISTEN i wanna figure out what it's like to be an adult not like have a job, pay bills, figure out how to make a meal type adult, i'm already stumbling my way through that but like. i wanna talk about HOUSE PROJECTS and my neighbour susan who is always adding things to her lawn, it drives me mad and how barry over in finance just got married for the third time, isn't it WILD and property taxes are so HORRIBLE and also have you tried the car dealership on wilson avenue, i got a .5% five year financing on my car, and last week i was at book club with ellen and our book was just such a powerful glimpse at the foibles of modern life, so quirky and funny, i absolutely DIED at the story about madame rochau's young paramour, it was an utter GAS anyways i don't know how to do most of that stuff but i figure i could start with the books? i'm good with books. books are cool. so i'm gonna read this book because the summary doesn't describe the story at all but does namedrop some newspapers and i feel like that means it probably has no spaceships or magic and lots of scenes of people eating dinner and that seems like the kind of thing ellen at book club would read, you know? |
Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-03 00:00:00![]() Elizabeth Crane has that thing all writers wish for: a distinctive voice. In this volume (I'm eager to get to her three others), it's caffeinated, deliriously self-conscious, and strangely buoyant. I wouldn't necessarily want to be the young women in these tales--they are by and large confused, directionless, and not so lucky in love--but boy do I like to listen to them. Many of the stories in the collection are deceptively light and comic, but wrap up with a dark, rich note that takes the reader someplace deeper. Others (including one of my favorites, "Year-at-a-Glance," which deals with a mother's terminal illness) are heartbreakers all the way through. Apart from "Year-at-a-Glance," my biggest thumbs-up go to "The Archetype's Girlfriend," "The Super Fantastic New Zealand Triangle," "An Intervention," and the delightful, brief, savage "Good for You!" Some of these stories contain magical elements, but Crane makes one feel that the magic isn't any weirder or harder to believe in than the tricks our ordinary mental life plays on us. |
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