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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Carmen Maria Machado

Start date: April 11, 2015

Finish date: April 21, 2015

Discussion: 2014 Nebula Nominees Discussion

Discussion leader: Ben Rowe

Why we're reading this: April 2015 group short story discussion (2014 Nebula Award nominee)

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Dec 07, 2017 Jeannette rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, eclectic-readers

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Usually I'm a fan of short story collections. I know many people who say they find them hard to get into and connect with, but typically I find them like snacks that I can just pop in one at a time. This is one of the rare times I have had the experience of not connecting with a group of short stories. While the writing was really solid, if I'm being honest, I really did not relate to most of the characters in this book, and the added supernatural elements were not to my taste.

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Jul 25, 2019 Shhhh... Books rated it really liked it

Shelves: short-stories, ownvoices, scifi, literary

Scary sexy experimental feminist storytelling. Greedily explicit F/F and M/F. Often quite genius. Occasionally, kind of off the rails, but I do wonder if I'd enjoyed these more if I read them more slowly. Like one or two a week. Because they are intense. As with most short story collections, my connections to this were quite uneven. I LOVED the retelling of the Green Ribbon and then "The Resident" which I had read before.

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