by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction and Acquisition: found a listing of JCO doing an author reading, and since it was my writing buddy's favorite author, we decided to go. Good reading, interesting woman. early September 2007
The Good: short stories that suck you in, very descriptive writing with a semi-detached tone that makes the horror all that much more visceral. Having heard her talk about the book before reading it, I read it with a little more intellect than I normally would, seeing the deliberate genre prose, the mechanics of the work, rather than just sitting back enjoying it
The Bad: It was all right, the stories.
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