Reviews for Out of the girls' room and into the night

The average rating for Out of the girls' room and into the night based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-04 00:00:00 Jai Bylona 3.76 rounded up to 4 stars Many more stories in this collection that I enjoyed than in most short story collections. I was pleasantly surprised and look forward to seeing what else Thisbe Nissen has to offer!

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-13 00:00:00 Thomas Riddle Ironically, I've read that reading fiction makes people smarter and more sympathetic (even empathetic) because reading fiction allows us to somehow experience new things. To learn different ways of thinking, to see different ways of living, to feel different ways of loving, to consider different ways of being, etc. We grow by reading. If that is true, and I think it is, then you grow a lot between the two covers of this book. You meet an older man who is nearing the scariest stages of dementia and his long-time wife, who is just a scared. You meet people with disabilities, people with eating disorders, people who are gay (more than once!), people who are smart and not so smart and happy and sad and unaware and oh so present it nearly kills them every day. My one qualm, which nearly warranted 4 stars instead of 5, is that the tone and quality of the female characters especially remained static throughout. You like them but they are tough, different enough to stand out (for a while) and resilient, witty, confident but damaged...I don't know. They were much the same in many of the stories, and that was disappointing. However, I stick by my 5-star rating because I will read all or parts of this book again. And that's how my rating system works.