BOOK 130: NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE
THAN YOU: MIRANDA JULY
July's collection of short
vignettes was published by Scribner in 2007. In her review for the New York Times, reviewer
Sheelah Kolhatkar gave the collection a mixed review writing, "A handful
of these stories are sweet and revealing, although in many cases the attempt to
create “art” is too self-conscious, and the effort comes off as pointlessly
strange." The collection was highly regarded by other writers and critics
including George
Saunders, Dave Eggers
and Amy Hempel. As of 2015 the
collection has more than 200,000 copies in circulation.
MY VERDICT: First of all I’m going
to say, I’m not a fan of short stories. I like to feel connections to the
people in stories I read, in a short story you just don’t get the time. These stories were, like with some of July’s
other works very hit and miss. I loved
watching Me and You
and Everyone We Know but felt that The Future was sub par. She
makes me feel uncomfortable, I think a lot of what she says is quirky for the
sake of being quirky and it’s not as real as I think it should be. I know I’m not making a lot of sense, I think
I was disappointed and expecting more?
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