Reviews for After Dark

The average rating for After Dark based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-04-30 00:00:00 Waldemar Holodniuk 4.5 "meandering, layered, impactful" stars !! 2016 Honorable Mention Read Tomorrow we leave for Belize. I just came back from a 45 minute walk in my dark and cool and breezy neighbourhood while listening to Portuguese Fado. I sit here and decide not to think about too much what I will write for this review as I have written a sentence or two as I read all eight stories in this volume today while I lived quietly, thoughtfully and emotionally today. I did not answer texts or emails today. I pretended we were at our country home. I barely spoke to my partner today but kissed him and smiled at him while he worked. I read Virginia Woolf. I took a warm bath. I made a delicious pasta salad and baked ham. I packed our suitcases. I read Virginia Woolf. I brushed the cat and already missed him. I listened to Madama Butterfly in its entirety while I reorganized two of our closets. I read Virginia Woolf. I missed my father and mother today and so I had a little cry. I thought about an old friend and wondered if she was happy. I read Virginia Woolf. I double checked and then triple checked our suitcases. I contemplated early retirement in New Mexico. I nuzzled my partner's neck. I read Virginia Wolf. I thought about our upcoming nine days in Belize and was happy. I hear my partner's soft snores and I am happy. I read Virginia Woolf for the first time and was mostly astounded. I am writing this review and I am at peace. I will list the stories, my rating and a sentence I jotted down after reading each story. 1. A Haunted House ( 4.5 stars ) A pair of romantic spirits add love to a home through delicacy and mischief. 2. A Society ( 4.5 stars ) A group of young women meet regularly to discuss their observations of men and their own feminine natures. 3. Monday or Tuesday ( 3.5 stars ) A heron flies and observes. 4. An Unwritten Novel ( 4.5 stars ) The flights of fancy of a young woman on a train. 5. The String Quartet ( 5 stars ) Snippets of conversation and the mind's meanderings during a Mozart String Quartet performance. 6. Blue & Green ( 5 stars ) What the fuck? 3 pages of gorgeousness. 7. Kew Gardens ( 5 stars ) **my favorite in collection The exquisite contrast of the life of insects and humans in a beautiful public garden. 8. The Mark on the Wall ( 3 stars ) A blemish on the wall leads to all sorts of thinking. I am honored to have finally read Virginia Woolf. This book made my day today extraordinarily special and yet I can have these days much more often. I need to stop and listen to my thoughts, my feelings and soak up my surroundings and realize the richness of the everyday. I will go and pray and have a sleep. I will read more Virginia Woolf very soon.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-02-04 00:00:00 Christopher ROOP [The presence of a snail in both Kew Gardens and A Mark on the wall made me burst out laughing. A Mark on the Wall is the last story in this collection, immediately after Kew Gardens and she realises that the mark was a snail on the wall. It made me laugh considering that Kew Gardens was roughly told from the perspective of a snail (hide spoiler)]