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Her name was Magda.

Death in her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

July 8, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I find Ottessa Moshfegh to be incredibly divisive as a writer. Of all her work, I was a little lukewarm on Eileen, but I might reread it soon, and I LOVED her story collection. I actively disliked McGlue, and thought My Year of Rest and Relaxation was amazing. I also really really liked this one. If you didn’t, I get it; she is divisive. So we begin with our narrator Vesta walking her dog in the woods where she lives. She finds a note that cryptically suggests a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Death In Her Hands, Ottessa Moshfegh

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:373 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Death In Her Hands, Ottessa Moshfegh ·
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I’m Just Not That Into Her

Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

June 29, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

This is try number three with Ottessa Moshfegh’s work and I have to finally admit that she’s not an author suited to my tastes, even as I admire her immense talent for writing. She is great at making the banal interesting and describing the internal monologue of the isolated and potentially manic. Her prose is beautiful. I totally get why people like her. But her characters and stories are so relentlessly uninteresting. I would have never imagined a person with this kind of talent could […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Death In Her Hands, mystery, Ottessa Moshfegh

Jake's CBR12 Review No:107 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Death In Her Hands, mystery, Ottessa Moshfegh ·
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