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Chargement... Survival Skills: Storiespar Jean Ryan
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  DetailMuse | Jan 10, 2014 |   I enjoyed this book of short stories. At times, I was a bit surprised as I figured out the characters. It is hard to choose favorites, but some might include Survival Skills, A Sea Change, Looks for Life, and Waiting for Annie. (  ) sar96 | Jan 2, 2014 | I enjoyed this book of short stories. At times, I was a bit surprised as I figured out the characters. It is hard to choose favorites, but some might include Survival Skills, A Sea Change, Looks for Life, and Waiting for Annie. ( ) sar96 | Jan 2, 2014 |  Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.This isn't a theme that resonates with me - I am not sentimental about animals and I think consciousness is pretty damn amazing, actually. (I wanted to get Ryan to read the story from David Eagleman's Sum in which a human decides to be reborn as a horse - only to realise just as the transition is taking place that a horse will never have the wit to ask to be reborn as a human). But fortunately the potential sentimentality is reduced by the fact that the stories feature an unusual range of animals - not just dogs, but also moths, spiders and (in my favourite story) an octopus. Other common themes? There are a lot of people whose partners are more attractive than they are, a lot of stories of love gradually lost. The tone is one of melancholy and acceptance. Honestly, none of this is really my thing. But the stories were written well enough that they didn't annoy me, despite that. This sounds like very faint praise, but actually isn't! So I would recommend the stories if the content sounds like it would suit you. Gretel never gives up on me. Every day of her life, she waits for me to have some fun. She cannot understand why something so easy should be so elusive. "Like this", she seems to say, dropping onto her forelegs, rump in the air, tail wagging. "Just do this!" ( )1  wandering_star | Dec 2, 2013 | Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. ) gbelladauna | Jul 17, 2013 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Fiction.
Literature.
Short Stories.
LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.)
HTML: Jean Ryan's debut collection tells stories of nature and of human nature. The characters who inhabit Jean Ryan's graceful, imaginative collection of stories are survivors of accidents and acts of nature, of injuries both physical and emotional. Ryan writes of beauty and aging, of love won and lost??with characters enveloped in the mysteries of the natural world and the animal kingdom. In "Greyhound," a woman brings home a rescued dog for her troubled partner in hopes that they might heal one another??while the dog in "What Gretel Knows" is the keeper of her owner's deepest secrets. In "Migration," a recently divorced woman retreats to a lakefront cabin where she is befriended by a mysterious Canada goose just as autumn begins to turn to winter. As a tornado ravages three towns in "The Spider in the Sink," a storm chaser's wife spares the life of a spider as she anxiously waits for her husband to return. And in "A Sea Change," a relationship falls victim to a woman's obsession with the world below the waves. The world is at once a beautiful and perilous place, Jean Ryan's stories tell us, and our lives are defined by the shelters we build Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Critiques des anciens de LibraryThing en avant-premièreLe livre Survival Skills: Stories de Jean Ryan était disponible sur LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  
Auteur LibraryThingJean Ryan est un auteur LibraryThing, c'est-à-dire un auteur qui catalogue sa bibliothèque personnelle sur LibraryThing. Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires  
 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (4.38)
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That’s from “Greyhound,” the first in this collection of 13 short stories (their titles comprise the cover’s design). “She” is a dog I'll never forget, one who’s adopted out after she refuses to race anymore. But “she” is also thematic of all the characters unable to meet needs in these poignant stories of human (and animal) interactions and failed relationships, mostly lesbian. There is a sameness to many of the stories but they're beautiful and I’d eagerly read more by Ryan. (