The harsh incinerating b boring awful raw barren obsessive numb five-hundred-volt nothingness now completely consuming her was so totally average. These ladies are supposed to be sisters, probably, because when plays aren't about hookers, ninety percent of the time they're about sisters. on the one hand, i’m interested enough in the characters and the situation to want to read more - like, i think i could read a whole novel with these characters, or maybe a salinger-style story cycle. fun fact: i don't usually love dog-voiced stories, but this one made me smile and got me all soft in the heart.

i don’t have any feelings about this one, but i will say that he manages his rhyme scheme and scansion much better than lang leav ever has. Giorgis: One of the things the stories do is really challenge the idea that love can fix a person or single-handedly diminish their sadness. A statue isn’t built from the ground up–it’s chiseled out of a block of marble–and I often wonder if we aren’t likewise shaped by the qualities we lack, outlined by the empty space where the marble used to be. There’s the first hook, which is the first paragraph or page of like, Look at this crazy world we’re in.The title is such a perfect introduction to the stories - it's like a little note of encouragement to all the characters in the book not to give up on love, no matter what. A couple frets over whether or not to obey grotesque, archaic rituals as they prepare for their wedding in one story; in another a group of musicians find themselves suddenly stuck with superpowers that bring only grief to their lives.

One night at a bar, late, you pick up a hobby of a person that somehow grows into a habit - a person whose flaws sparkle off yours in glorious coruscating patterns; a person who gets to know not just the you you sometimes show, but the you you truly are; a person who - when you weren't looking - slipped a naked, wounded heart into the pocket of your jacket with a bow and a note that said, "handle with care. Look at all this stuff the Sadness has here in San Jose or Chapel Hill or wherever you’re currently leaving. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.when that happens, you can put your groceries down and walk back out the door and close the door behind you. That the thing about death is that it's terrifying and overwhelming and it can happen at any moment.