AM/PM

If anything s going to save the characters in Amelia Gray s debut from their troubled romances, their social improprieties, or their hands turning into claws, it s a John Mayer concert tee In AM PM, impish humor and cutting insight are on full display Readers tour the lives of 23 characters across 120 stories full of lizard tails, Schr dinger boxes, and volcano love June wakes up one morning covered in seeds Leonard falls in love with a chaise lounge Betty insists everything except flowers are a symbol of her love for her husband Andrew talks to his house in times of crisis Written every morning and night for two months, these brief vignettes 50 to 100 words recall Donald Barthelme in their whimsy and subtle yet powerful emotions An intermittent love story as seen through a darkly comic lens, AM PM mixes poetry and prose, humor and hubris to create a truly original work of fiction. Download AM/PM by Amelia Gray – kino-fada.fr 4 stars, very reluctantly.IthinkI veletthisauthordown.Ask me again after I ve finished Threats A Novel How the hell did this happen How could I go from enjoying a book while reading it to almost total indifference now that I ve finished it not once, but twice, and parts of it eventhan twice Dunno Happens Sux.Could all those friends and people whose reviews I follow have been wrong I prefer not to believe that That s why I m content to think all blame rests with me Well, most of the 4 stars, very reluc...Pressing on in the winter makessense,posits Amelia Gray,there s snow, and when you press on through the snow, you can feel it and sense the difficultyAM PM, the debut from Gray, was that precious relief from the dregs of winter This compact book, written in the style of flash fiction, features 120 pages of pure crystalline joy The ephemeral nature of these succinct peepholes into the various lives of Gray s creations serve as a writing prompt for the imagination, allowing the reaPressing on in the winter makessense,posits Amelia Gray,there s snow, and when you press on through the snow, you can feel it and sense the difficultyAM PM, the debut from Gray, was that precious relief f...So many of the books I ve been reading lately are conjuring up storms in my head that coagulate into the word Inspiring I m feeling really inspired by everything I ve read in the last few months or so Inspired in the sense of getting really strong, revelatory feelings about the aesthetically and spiritually redemptive possibilities of fiction writing Magnetic Fields by Ron Loewinsohn everything by Matthew Sharpe, most recently Jamestown the flash fiction of Lydia Davis big obvious ones l So many of the books I ve been reading lately are conjuring up storms in my head that coagulate into the word Inspiring I m feeling really inspired by everything I ve read in the last few months or so Inspired in the sense of getting really strong, revelatory feelings about the aesthetically and spiritually redemptive possibili...The functional division between morning and not morning is arbitrary and artificial because we are too conditioned to face the honesty of admitting otherwise The natural definition of the two is measured by daylight and darkness Which is why a book like this is best appreciated as 4 14 a.m bleeds its way toward dawn and the day s potential to become one thing creeps along to reach the other when you re either so hungover you can only view the world through the safety of metaphors that won t The functional division between morning and not morning is arbitrary and artificial because we are too conditioned to face the honesty of admitting otherwise The natural definition of the two is measured by daylight and darkness Which is why a book like this is best appreciated as 4 14 a.m bleeds its way toward dawn and the day s potential to become one thing creeps along to reach the other when you re either so hungover you can only view the world through the safety of metaphors that won t make sense in later lucidity or too consumed with your own mortality to move, you watch as sunlight and shadow wrestle their way across the battleground of your pillow s unoccupied half, the line between them moving like the minute hand that drains opportunity from the day before you realize that nothing will make tomorrow feel any different Wh...PM 0There s no need for poetry, Andrew said I m just here for my chair Well sit down and let me wax lyrical.This book consists of 120 beautiful fragments wholes fragments of prose poetry prose, I don t know They re beautiful I love them Four stars Amelia Gray, my imaginary cousin, I want to read everything that you have written and ever will I want to take your last name and share it with you I want to wear a tee shirt with your image on it You are that good.Here is an example of wha PM 0There s no need for poetry, Andrew said I m just here for my chair Well sit down and let me wax lyrical.This book consists of 120 beautiful fragments wholes fragments of prose poetry prose, I don t know They re beautiful I love them Four stars Amelia Gray, my imaginary cous...So this is my third attempt at a review of this book and each time I get off on some tangent or lose myself in this or that idea But I have some review writing music on and I m confident that this will turn into something worth posting I was first introduced to Amelia Gray s work through her novel debut Threats and my experience with that book was a bit shaky Although, I ended up giving it four stars and a positive review at first, after it had stewed in my mind a bit, I fell a bit out of lov So this is my third attempt at a review of this book and each time I get off on some tangent or lose myself in this or that idea But I have some review writing music on and I m confident that this will turn into something worth posting I was first introduced to Amelia Gray s work through her novel debut Threa...Just because you made it warm doesn t make it yours A lesson for felines Hear that Mooncheese That s a rule for you This book looks like flash fiction, and that s a shame because I think it may turn off some people who would enjoy this book Rather it s just a bunch of short kind of interconnected little episodes from a recurring group of peoples lives From the banal to the outright absurd to I guess what would be harsh rules for cats followed by a cats argument for why they should have Just because you made it warm doesn t make it yours A lesson for felines Hear that Mooncheese That s a rule for you This book looks like flash fiction, and that s a shame because I think it may turn off some people who would enjoy this book Rather it s just a bunch of short kind of interconnected little episodes from a recurring group of peoples lives From the banal to the outright absurd to I guess what would be harsh rules for cats followed by a cats argument for why they should have ownership over something they have made warm with their body and cozy with their claws Like, Dear Everybody there is a fleeting beautiful heartbreaking feel to much of this book I d say that it almost borders on whimsical, but whimsy like flash fiction has too many bad connotations attached to it Or maybe I could describe this as a non punk Cometbus, in the way that these stories almost make you want to go out and get ...I loved this LOVED One day, everyone stopped over thinking We started thinking just as much as we should, and not anythan necessary There were nomisunderstandings whatsoeverTrivial errors of speech or judgment were just as important as ...Flash fiction, in general leaves me somewhat unmoved unless extraordinary acts of suggestion and economy are effected so as to generate a much larger world than can be contained on a single page I could treat these as poetry, instead, but I m also a terrible poetry reader So while some of these pieces do create such a key sense of greater story surrounding, many do not, coming offas exercises in textual economy Many of the stories could be extended by their interconnection, but that a Flash fiction, in general leaves me somewhat unmoved unless extraordinary acts of suggestion and economy are effected so as to generate a much larger world than can be contained on a single page I could treat these as poetry, instead, but I m also a terrible poetry reader So while some of these pieces do create such a key sense of greater story surrounding, many do not, coming offas exercises in textual economy Many of the stories could be extended by their interconnection, but ...So, I stopped reading for awhile Not sure why I couldn t even make it through a magazine, let alone a whole damn book And the weird thing is that I didn t miss it, except in this abstract, intellectual way When I did finally get around to missing reading for real, it was like I d forgotten how to slice a tomato I d pick up a book, turn it over and over, and look for some sort of way in And then I quit angsting all over myself and read a damn book It was this one For not having read anyth So, I stopped reading for awhile Not sure why I couldn t even make it through a magazine, let alone a whole damn book And the weird thing is that I didn t miss it, except in this abstract, intellectual way When I did finally get around to missing reading for real, it was like I d forgotten how to slice a tomato I d pick up a book, turn it over and over, and look for some sort of way in And then I q...

• English
• 10 June 2018
Amelia Gray
• Paperback
• 120 pages
• 0977199274
• Amelia Gray
• AM/PM