The Magician's Assistant By Ann Patchett
The Magician's Assistant By Ann Patchett 4 stars
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Dolores Claiborne By Stephen King
Dolores Claiborne By Stephen King Originally meant to be published in one volume along with Gerald's Game, Dolores Claiborne recounts the story of Dolores's interrogation for the murder of her employer and long-time companion Vera Donovan. Through telling the tale of why she is innocent of the crime, Dolores tells about the real crime she committed decades before. That crime being the murder of her husband, an alcoholic who abused Dolores and sexually abused their daughter. In the telling, Dolores recounts her acquaintance and employment with Vera, a woman who reveled in being a bitch and who gave Dolores the idea that husbands have "accidents" all of the time, as Vera's did. After Dolores's husband drains her children's college funds dry, she decides she's had enough and plots to take care of him for good during the same eclipse that occurred in Gerald's Game . This book has similar ideas to that one, with pervert fathers, abusive husbands, and...
Homesick for Another World By Ottessa Moshfegh
Homesick for Another World By Ottessa Moshfegh A collection of short stories exploring more of the same ideas that appeared in Moshfegh's previous two novels. The main ideas I come away with in these poignant, often humoress, stories is that she is showing us the worst of humanity, our greed and baser natures, the things we do to or think about others and ourselves that we hate to admit to. She forces us to examine ourselves and our own prejudices. Through these readings we can feel above others, however false that is, which in itself forces us to face our own selfishness and dark places. I'm really enjoying Moshfegh's writing. Their is a depressed nature to them, but their is also hope and a light at the end of many of them. But not everything comes out all right in the end,. Such is life, and she shows us that. It is a mirror. 4 stars.