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(Another book I read for the reading course in recent Fantasy and Science Fiction for my MFA)
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
An imaginative collection of short stories. Link had a vivid sense of story-telling in that these pieces pull you in and keep you on your toes. You never know quite were they're going, or what will happen next. It keeps you reading up to the end.
The themes are highly creative, the writing vivid an evocative.
However, because Link strays far from the normal modes of story-telling, the pieces just...end. There aren't any endings, the stories stop. It's up to the reader to provide closure and meaning, if you can.
I admire her obvious gift for creating new worlds, new images. But I missed greatly the closure that comes with stories that wrap up in some form.
I suspect that I'm just the wrong audience for her work.
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Magic for Beginners by Kelly LinkMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
An imaginative collection of short stories. Link had a vivid sense of story-telling in that these pieces pull you in and keep you on your toes. You never know quite were they're going, or what will happen next. It keeps you reading up to the end.
The themes are highly creative, the writing vivid an evocative.
However, because Link strays far from the normal modes of story-telling, the pieces just...end. There aren't any endings, the stories stop. It's up to the reader to provide closure and meaning, if you can.
I admire her obvious gift for creating new worlds, new images. But I missed greatly the closure that comes with stories that wrap up in some form.
I suspect that I'm just the wrong audience for her work.
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