So far, I’m on track to meet my 50-book challenge for 2005. Both of these were recommendations culled from some of the litblogs I read.
24. When the Messenger is Hot by Elizabeth Crane. Stories featuring women who are in recovery, have relationship troubles, and/or have dead/dying opera-singing mothers. Funny and well-written, I especially liked “Return to the Depot!” and “Intervention,” about a woman whose friends intervene to let her know that she’s NOT an alcoholic. I found Crane’s forays into second-person narration less successful than the rest, but not without merit.
25. Stop that Girl by Elizabeth McKenzie stopped being good when the main character in the interconnected stories, Ann Ransom, stopped being a girl. The stories from her childhood were funny and intriguing. Once she got to college, though, I found them boring and pathetic. Perhaps it is the author’s intent to show how smart, sassy heroines get swallowed up into boring lives, but I thought the last few stories took away from the charm of the earlier ones.
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