Elizabeth Anne Fritz

I miss the old days

Revisado: 10-10-23

Maybe it’s the combination of having read more literature since the early days of King’s writing, but I didn’t find this really scary or interesting. It kinda felt like it was phoned in. Meh. So much exposition. I think it’s great that it’s pissing off anti-vaxxers, though.

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I feel seen

Revisado: 09-27-23

This was a joy to listen to - the story was complex and interesting and mysterious and horrific and also funny and compassionate. I can’t believe a dude wrote this but he wrote it well. The narrator is EXCEPTIONAL. Och, I wish I had never heard it so I could listen all over again. Excellent.

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Gothic Lit, but the scariest part…

Revisado: 09-18-23

…is the authentic and very real narrative of being born to unhealthy people. This was just a really wonderful read and a strong performance. Highly recommend for fans of the gothic genre and the turn of the screw.

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Stiffly told, unnecessary prose.

Revisado: 09-07-23

The narration was just a bit too stiff - likely because the writing didn’t feel authentic. There are too many details and exposition on minutiae but not enough where it counts. It’s kinda surface level and I was hoping for more thrills. That said, the idea of generational discontent haunting Black families and their confrontation of it is something that the author presents in an interesting way. Hope that theme emerges in other works.

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Perfection

Revisado: 08-31-23

This is a story about how the old, the young, the witless, the cruel, and the dead can carry and bury secrets. And it is told magically.

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Folding in on itself

Revisado: 11-19-22

This was a cool premise and an unfortunate execution. About three chapters could have been eliminated because of redundancy along with some of the most annoying, frivolous dialog I’ve come across. I don’t believe there was one character I cared about but that was okay because, you see, many of their stories don’t get resolved. Unfulfilling and also boring. Elements were interesting. But I’m a bit cross about the book.

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A Perfect Gothic Tale

Revisado: 04-06-21

Executed brilliantly, Tremblay brings together horror and gothic genres in a haunting little tale about a haunted family. The writing is perfection. The performance is compelling. But oh, the nods to the great gothic stories of our time. The Turn of the Screw has been outdone, and I’ll be coming back to this one again and again.

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Never Meet Your Heroes

Revisado: 02-04-20

But if you do, give them room to be human. Laura Ingalls Wilder provided me with a lasting love for historical fiction. As an only child, her prairie family and landscapes offered me company and adventures I could not have in my tract house in Illinois. Later, I reveled in the stories of the plains - all of them, from the outright outlaws to the hardships and horrors suffered by the First Nations to my own family’s history of trying (and routinely failing) to make farming work in South Dakota. So to have her life and the life of her daughter’s peeled back with such veracity, scholarship, and insight was almost like having my own family secrets aired.

But the beauty of this book is its ability to globalize and contextualize Wilder’s and Lane’s histories while also shining a light on them as individuals. Americans are all a bit like them both - grandiose, humble, foolish, forgetful, prideful, loyal, and opportunistic.

I will listen to this again, sure to glean new ideas and insights. I cannot recommend this book enough.

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