![]() Another example is 'The Husband Stitch', which begins with a guide on HOW to read the story aloud, which makes listening to the story being read aloud a fun experience, but also takes something away from the imagination that would otherwise have been needed in order to fashion the voices oneself and following the increasingly ridiculous and dangerous instructions (which one cannot possibly follow, of course, but as a reader, one would be presented to them as something one would have to consider and then reject - or not, of course, that is up to you). An example is the story 'Especially Heinous', which consists of small vignettes/episode synopses, which means that the narrator has to constantly reign in the pace and speak yet another title, and to me this ruined the flow of the story somewhat. My only quibble is that this collection does not strike me as all that well suited for audio book'ing many of them are meta tales about the acts of writing and reading, which makes listening to them rather than reading them less satisfying. ![]() They are fiercely feminist and equally funny and heartbreaking. These stories are beautiful and haunting, and they always have a critical eye to the era that birthed them. ![]() Machado is a gifted writer and a fantastic storyteller. ![]()
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