Comments on: Short Story Anthology: “My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead”

By: Cara Powers

Cara Powers — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:41:02 +0000

Oh, I remember this post. I thought I’d already commented on it. I LOVE the cover at the top. BTW, I love your website design.
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By: Jenners

Jenners — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:50:56 +0000

I just got this book to read (with the good cover) and I’m really excited about it. Thanks for the review … it made me even more excited to see what I’ll like in it.
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By: Valerie

Valerie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:20:44 +0000

Jill (rhapsody) — I’m not sure if the madonna/whore analogy fits for the “Red Rose, White Rose” story, although I can see why it would come to mind. The quotes do make it seem like men, or definitely this man in the story, think that women can only be either good or bad; but not in between (or sometimes “good”, sometimes “bad”). I’m going to be keeping my eyes out for that Eileen Chang title/cover now!

Emily — “Patience and Sarah” sounds like a good one! Just wrote it down. I read “Their Eyes are Watching God” a long time ago, and barely remember the plot. The ending must be a good example of “death finishing love” as quoted above.

She — yeah, it got me wanting to read some of Catullus, that’s for sure!

Eva — I thought Eugenides did a good job editing this anthology, although like you, didn’t love all of the stories. I remember starting “Middlemarch” way back when my oldest was an infant — no surprise that I never managed to get very far, and I gave it up. Now that life is less chaotic, I should try it again. Haven’t read “Crime and Punishment” yet.
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By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:37:38 +0000

I read this anthology earlier this year; I didn’t love all the stories, but I thought they were interesting. (And I actually like the hardcover more than the trade paper version, but they’re both awesome!) Middlemarch ends happily. And there’s quite a touching love story in Crime and Punishment that I think ends beautifully.
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By: She

She — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:57:18 +0000

What a neat anthology– and named after a Catullus poem at that. What a jokester he was.
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By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:45:47 +0000

One of my favorite happy-ending love stories is Patience and Sarah, by Isobel Miller: a story of two New England women who fall in love and move out west to homestead together (based on a true story). It’s true, though, that happy endings are hard to find. I kind of think of the Janie/Teacake relationship in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God to be a happy one: even though it ends tragically, Janie’s still richer because of the experience.
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By: rhapsodyinbooks

rhapsodyinbooks — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:55:15 +0000

I like the paperback cover better also, and I really like the 3rd cover you showed as well. I admit I too would have picked these up had I come across them in B&N. I like the white rose-red rose analogy better than madonna-whore….
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