Read For Free Mrs. Somebody Somebody By Tracy Winn Made Available In Paper Copy

book of short stories set in Lowell, MA postWWII through present day, Mrs, Somebody Somebody can be bleak and depressing, But the collection's stories are also beautifully, almost poetically, told, While I was ready to throw it down at times because of the sadness of this dying mill town one I grew up next door to and yet barely know, I am glad I didn't.
The last story was the best of the book and left me wantingbut not quite ableto give this more than three.
It pulled the characters from the various stories together and offered a unique sort of hope for the future.
Lastly, I should mention that this small book is physically beautiful and artistically reflects the stories' tone and content.
Kudos to Southern Methodist University Press on this one, Great book title, tooone that's all the more appropriate by the end of the collection, I really wanted to like this book not only is short fiction one of my favorite genres but the idea of the interlocking stories seemed to be right in my pocket.
I tried, I really tried but I just can't bring myself to read any further than the firstand even that was a struggle.
There is a strange combination of too much information and then not enough when it comes to characters and story development.
Like the author is keeping secrets from us and only sharing surface details, Almost like a friend retelling a story that you experienced too, . . you don't need all the details because you already know them, except in this case we the readers don't.
I liked where the author was trying to go and I liked the characters I did get to know I just felt like the writing was choppy and inconsistent.
Chosen to read by my book group because it was set in Lowell, Massachusetts and supposedly interwoven stories live "Olive Kitteridge.
" Unfortunately, I found the stories very depressing, The town of Lowell was the constant for these stories and not the characters, Yet, other than the first story which was focused on Mill Girls, these stories could have been set in any town.
While there was some connectivity between characters in the stories, the author chose to focus on how a minor character in one story next had a miserable experience.
Because these were just snippets of lives and focused on the bitter not the sweet, it was difficult to connect with them.
This book has to be one of the biggest disappointments ever, When I discovered it got left on a wet washcloth, my only concern was that the book soaked up some of the fresh goodness of the water.
Sheesh. Seriously. The first two chapters of this book laid out a fine plot and developed characters quite nicely, What followed was a hodge podge of mismatched plots and dodgy characters, If I had quit reading after the firs two chapters and never found out what happened to the people, it would have been MUCH more satisfying.
Definitely a fine wordsmith, but poorly crafted book overall, Save your time. O. Henry or Clemmins will be a much better use of time, Don't waste your time on this one, What I liked about this book was mostly how the characters live were all woven together, After I read the first chapter I thought that this was a book of short stories but as I kept reading I found little bits of every ones lives in the stories.

What I didn't like about this book was all of the cussing, I am the kind of person that believes a good book can be written without the use of swear words.

The book was a tug at your heartstrings kind of book I am very glad for the opportunity to have read it.
I like short stories but this was not up to my taste, I wish that the town wasn't the only constant character and had I not read it on the back I would not have known.
A timeline would have also helped, I was hoping that somehow the stories would interlock in the end but sad to say they didn't.
Also, the stories didn't seem to have resolutions just cliff hangers and never were revisted, This was upsetting to me because when you spend the effort to read a story you expect an end, not the middle of a life left behind.
Out of all the tales to be told there were onlystories that I enjoyed, the rest were painful to get through.
I would not recommend this for someone who is looking for a good, short book to read, I enjoyed this and felt the author Tracy Winn did a good job getting into the period and the characters in a few amount of words.
. . something some authors don't manage in a lot of words, It is a book of short stories but they hold together through their location which begins in Lowell, Mass.
just after WWII. It seemed to me giant time leaps were made between stories and it seemed to take me a bit of reading to get my head there too.
Brilliantly written, this collection of linked stories reveals the diverse lives of people living in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts at midcentury.
Best read in one sitting, Otherwise, it can become a little challenging to "connect the dots" and place characters who were minor players in other chapters.
Linked short stories set in Lowell, Ma from post WWII to the present, Somewhat uneven, but the first and last stories are stellar and somehow, the sum of the whole makes even the weaker stories seem stronger.
Mrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy Winn was not exactly what I expected, Reading the description in the ER listing, it was not clear that the book was a series of short stories set in one small town, rather than a full length novel.


While I'm not normally a fan of short story collections, there is some worth here, The continuity of the setting and some characters included in more than one story, made the book read slightly more like a novel, but not enough to consider it one.
Very few of the characters are fleshed out enough to give you the feel of a novel,

Mrs. Somebody Somebody, Frankie Floats, Blue Tango and Gumbo Limbo fall somewhere in the "ok" range not great not horrible.
Another Way to Make Cleopatra Cry was just bad unlikeable characters and just plain uninteresting,

The "good" includes Glass Box, Smoke, Cantogallo, Copper Leaves Waving and Luck, Be a Lady, These stories are all poignant with great character development, interesting moods and beautiful writing, I spent the time reading these stories and wishing they were the basis of a novellength work,

On the whole, I liked this book, but not a lot, Quite telling is the fact that after chapter one, I read two different books before being able to pick this one up again to finish it.
Although not described as a collection of short stories, it read as such, What a sad, sad motley crüe, nothing inspiring or noteworthy, depressing at best, disturbing at most, Not my cup of tea, I did not like this book, Would've liked going in to it that it was sort of a collection of stories, I might have had a different reaction to it.
I was disappointed that the stories weren't tied together better, Several of the characters could've been their own novel, and I was curious what happened to some of them.
I don't really enjoy reading short stories, so after I got this book I was thinking maybe it wasn't for me.
I really enjoy Ms. Winn's writing, but the stories didn't see to really connect, except for a few people threaded in there in between.
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However at the end I got the story pretty much, but some of it seemed disjointed to me.


Ms. Winn writes beautifully and so I am glad I read it, and the title totally makes sense but I still don't know what to think

of it.
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