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Once in a while, an author comes along who seems able to spin language into gold. Ms. Link has few peers in contemporary literature, with Karen Russell (Swamplandia, Vampires in the Lemon Grove) as a rare equal. Her writing is clean, transparent and matter of fact, with stories that are casual disturbances of conventional reality. Nothing unusual to see here folks. Each story is very much like the peculiar wind-up toys described in The Summer People. Jeweled miniatures with unexpected and unsettling contents.


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Get in Trouble Stories Kelly Link 9780804179683 Books Reviews

Darkish "modern fairytales" you might call them, mostly well written with some risky writing style experiments thrown in. Characters are interesting and dialogue is solid and realistic. Worth the price. Enjoyable read.
Gritty, sparse writing. Sometimes Kelly's writing style gets in the way of the story. Some stories end abruptly--off a cliff with no where to go, and the reader is left wondering what just happened. This was a book club selection, so I hung in there and read it.
Stories linked by trouble- what fun! These stories and writing were surprising and wonderful. I loved not knowing what was next. Though it was irritating to have to reset with every story, the effort was worth it, even when I didn't want the story to end.
Incredibly weird in the best way possible. Started me down a path of reading as much weird/magical stuff as I could get my hands on, after years of sticking to mostly straight realistic literary stuff.
I really enjoyed these stories for the most part-- there was only one or two that I had to slog through. The overall tone of the book is a little depressing/ dark in my opinion, which I didn't mind but some might. I took this one on vacation and do not regret it but this is not an easy breezy sunny funny read. I plan to read some of the stories again for sure, several of them left me wanting more.
Author is adept at maintaining a sense of surrealism and suspense. Her characters tend to move forward, not in a straight line beginning to end fashion but in curious and entertaining fits and starts....Rather than being offered and accepting a passive role in reading a "he said she said narrative", with first or third person narrator in control, in these stories, I felt I was granted access to the inner thoughts and feelings of the story teller, not as they were remembered, but as they sprang to life in that character's mind.
One thing I like about short stories is the authors can create worlds that are different from ours in subtle or outrageous ways, and they don't have to explain or justify it - that responsibility of understanding falls on the reader. In long form the author must give the details on these differences but in short form there is no opportunity so the reader has to fill in the blanks. Kelly Link creates delicious worlds in her short stories that are not difficult for the read to accept, but do require the reader to really engage in the story to think about this world and how it could exist, and once the reader accepts that world she provides just enough detail on the environment to let the reader create the background while she focuses on the character and the plot. Great collection.
Once in a while, an author comes along who seems able to spin language into gold. Ms. Link has few peers in contemporary literature, with Karen Russell (Swamplandia, Vampires in the Lemon Grove) as a rare equal. Her writing is clean, transparent and matter of fact, with stories that are casual disturbances of conventional reality. Nothing unusual to see here folks. Each story is very much like the peculiar wind-up toys described in The Summer People. Jeweled miniatures with unexpected and unsettling contents.