JOANNE HARRIS
Liked Chocolat. Made it through (a little falteringly, though) Blackberry Wine. Quite liked Five Quarters of the Orange. Still, would never count myself as a Harris fan. Picked this one up pretty much by chance, was in the mood for short stories somehow.
The book wasn't bad. Which isn't to say it was good.
I found her stories a little too self-conscious. And formulaic. You know, like they were set as writing project topics or something - very constructed.
There are some good ones, of course. One about the last original story ever written. Another, about a spooky cookbook. Discovered some others online, you could read them here, here, here, or here.
Dropped it halfway, largely due to my shortattentionspanitis, which has assumed chronic proportion in the last few weeks.
Plus I was dying to get into an Artemis Fowl state of mind.
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