Tuesday, November 10, 2015

We Live In Water by Jess Walter



This is a book of short stories. 

The funniest story was “Virgo” about a newspaper editor who changed the original wording of the daily horoscopes to be the opposite of what was supposed to be published so that his ex-girlfriend would be upset. It was funny until he realized his father, who went into a hypoglycemic coma, shared the same horoscope.  Oopsie. 

All of the stories had some appeal – even the one that was only two pages.

It is a coincidence that I read another book by the same author – “Beautiful Ruins”.  I liked that book better than this one.

I must say that I am not getting a good impression of the state of Washington from these stories.

Don’t Eat Cat – bizzaro story about zombies.

I keep waiting to see if any of the characters re-occur.  Names do.

My commentary here is in the same format as this short story book.  

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