Reviews for Indian Tales

The average rating for Indian Tales based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-06-09 00:00:00 Antonio Pignaloni I've just read one story at this point, but I wanted to post a review of that: Last night, as Kai slowly drifted off to sleep on Kristen's lap, I read aloud "Rembrandt's Bones." I enjoyed it and appreciated it. I think I have a special respect for stories that feel nicely contained. Yeah, we got to "see" bits of her childhood and bits of her professional life, but mostly she was sitting at Suzanne Vega's metaphoric diner thinking through things. The impetus for the tale were two deaths, but it was really more about choosing life and especially making decisions; weighing the good and the bad. Occasionally you need to embrace the monkey and then sometimes you need to completely forget the monkey exists. The one difficulty I had with the story really does not lend itself to a complaint. Moore's writing is very educated. I am obviously a huge proponent of education and of knowing things and yet I was a bit humbled as I progressed through this piece, both because reading it aloud I stumbled over many words (such as all the art names and titles), as well as because there was some vocabulary that was beyond me. Obviously, to a degree, that was intentional. Our protagonist, as an eight-year-old would sit with Opal and impress each other with big words. That I ended up being a little disappointed in my own vocabulary limits is, again, really not a fault of the story but perhaps an encouragement to never stop learning. I found that even references with which I was familiar (for example, Pride and Prejudice) lost me a bit on the specifics they were discussing. But, certainly, a positive reading experience for us last night. I now look forward to reading more of the Compendium.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-28 00:00:00 Nathaniel Sanders A lovely set of non-categorizable short stories that are worth a read. It's probably incredibly sexist to think that women have richer interior lives than men, but I think they do, and this book of stories gives a tiny peek into some of those.