Comments on: Someday This Will Be Funny

By: M. Kruft "BookClubBetty"

M. Kruft "BookClubBetty" — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:13:58 +0000

the reviews sounded so good…. and I just couldn’t get into it:( I hope others do – wish I could have “returned it” from the Kindle. Just not the book for me.

By: Martin Montana

Martin Montana — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:57:38 +0000

Uneven Having read some reviews in BookForum which referenced literary icons, and how girls think and spend time in their rooms, I checked out this book at the library; after skimming a few pages of Love Sentence, pp 111-136 which is brilliant. I haven't read Green Girl yet, but Love Sentence must certainly outdo it in references. The obsessive nature of the letters to past or even future lovers is probably universal at least in thought sequences while lying in bed.Definitely would like to read other works, esp. This Is Not It.The Someday collection, other than Love Sentence, is rather prosaic or journalistic documentary style in my opinion. But I have only read about half the collection.

By: Rose Poussiere

Rose Poussiere — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:26:53 +0000

mesmerism Lynne Tillman is a writer really like no other but if comparisons were forced perhaps Jane Bowles, Thomas Bernhard come to mind. She is at the height of her powers in this collection. She faces death, life, ghosts, memory, time and the absurd business of the human condition with a deft and mysterious touch.It's the kind of collection you can pick up, read a few of its short, dazzling pieces and feel smarter, graced, less of a failure (for knowing you are one), an enrichment that comes from small phrases of time, an hour here or there. Read the last story, for instance, and feel you love this person and also know how hard it is to be her. To be you.