Shelly Oria
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Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings From the Me… Tekijä: Shelly Oria
Important. I couldn't commit to reading all of this. A terrible and haunting compilation of traumas woven into stories, poems and guilt ridden recollections. There is power in truth telling. There needs to be more books like this.
Somewhat disjointed vignettes, but interesting to see attitudes across the board. I feel like New York may have more in common with Tel Aviv than San Francisco--even though it reminded me a bit of Tales of the City.
Really didn't think much of these. Half felt like watered down Etgar Keret (who I love) and the others had sad sack narrators smitten with self-absorbed beautiful people. Ick.
2.5 out of 5.
I just wish I could've related to or enjoyed more of the stories in the collection, overall. For the most part, I found myself skimming - because there was little new or engaging here. The stories are well-written, although they wear their author's Israeli identity aggressively at times, but they felt like pieces from a club I haven't been invited to yet: the New York (specifically Brooklyn) young-writer "scene". I'm a young writer in New York and am certainly part of the literary scene... but there's a little too much effort put into "being literary" here. When Oria relaxes and just writes something for fun, it shows: the story grabs you. The others, they don't grab as much.
More at RB: http://ragingbiblioholism.com/2015/05/01/new-york-1-tel-aviv-0/… (lisätietoja)
I just wish I could've related to or enjoyed more of the stories in the collection, overall. For the most part, I found myself skimming - because there was little new or engaging here. The stories are well-written, although they wear their author's Israeli identity aggressively at times, but they felt like pieces from a club I haven't been invited to yet: the New York (specifically Brooklyn) young-writer "scene". I'm a young writer in New York and am certainly part of the literary scene... but there's a little too much effort put into "being literary" here. When Oria relaxes and just writes something for fun, it shows: the story grabs you. The others, they don't grab as much.
More at RB: http://ragingbiblioholism.com/2015/05/01/new-york-1-tel-aviv-0/… (lisätietoja)
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