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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

Dubravka Ugrešić,

Ellen Elias-Bursać (Translator)

Start date: November 15, 2019

Finish date: January 15, 2020

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Mar 21, 2022 Melki rated it liked it

Shelves: folk-fairy-tales, fiction, old-age-aint-fer-sissies, wascally-witches, folklore, baba-yaga

As we grow older, we weep less and less. It takes energy to weep. In old age neither the lungs, nor the heart, nor the tear ducts, nor the muscles have the strength for great misery. Age is a kind of natural sedative, perhaps because age itself is a misfortune.

This is a novel told in three parts, only one of which I particularly enjoyed.

The first story of a woman dealing with her difficult elderly mother chafed me, as my difficult elderly mother-in-law is fussing to move in with my husband and m ...more

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Dec 15, 2019 Sarah rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

Part 1 - A mediocre story that didn't connect with me at all. Two stars

Part 2 - Significantly better than part one but still didn't hold me in thrall. There was also this recurring motif of rhymes that state the story moves onward which was overdone and felt tacked on. Three stars.

Part 3 - Nearly the whole reason this book was a one star read for me. The first two parts are the actual story. Part three is the author talking down to the reader, doing all the critical thinking on our behalf while ...more

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Nov 29, 2019 Annette rated it it was ok

Shelves: books-by-women, into-the-forest-2019, 2019

The first two parts are stories about women of character and some unusual men and these parts were entertaining. The third part ruined the entire book for me but I now know quite a bit about Baba Yaga.

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