so-soSome of the stories were ok but towards the end they got really bizarre. Maybe it‘s just not for me but there was a lot of uncomfortable sex fantasies.
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Heartbreaker: Stories | 
so-soSome of the stories were ok but towards the end they got really bizarre. Maybe it‘s just not for me but there was a lot of uncomfortable sex fantasies.
Only read the first couple of stories but definitely already a fresh new take on love. Committed to reading at least one new story a day!
so-so3.5/5 🦑. I still have a difficult time with the short story genre. I really liked 75% of the stories. To forewarn anyone how ops to read this collection it touches on some perverse content. I enjoy that kind of bend to a story but it may not be for everyone.
pickI've read more short stories this year than ever before and this collection struck me as pretty original. Some of the stories are weird, some are dark, all are interesting. And since it's #signedsunday I'm showing off this page instead of the cover.
pickI have very mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, it's a beautiful collection of gorgeously written, sad, and fucked up stories about love and sex and relationships. On the other hand, they were so goddamn weird I struggled through it at times. But I guess that's what made it so compelling. I can't say that I recommend it to everyone, because some might find some of the stories offensive or way too out there, but it was good. Very good.
Only read 11 books this month, but they were all good ones! These were my faves 📚 #septemberwrapup
pickThis book was so deliciously creepy. Eerily beautiful and one story in particular I don't recommend reading at night 🤐
pickShort stories are typically my palette cleansers between larger, heavy books. I keep a book on hand for brief moments that I know I won't be able to devote to a novel of depth.
This book came with the sacrifice of shock, sometimes disgust, morbid-intrigue at each unique character providing a brief glimpse into society's outcasts, drifts from social norms, and humanity's underbelly, uncovering the unusual + absurd surviving among us.
Why does this remind me so much of Plath?
pickI typically like short stories to have more closure, but the ones in this collection are so jarring, bizarre and sordid that I didn't even care. They're a punch to the gut, like pouring salt into the open wounds of loneliness, melancholy, longing and disconnection.
David Foster Wallace said that "good fiction's job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." I'll let you guess what Heartbreaker did for me.
These stories are a punch in the gut.
so-soI honestly don't know what I read. I think Maryse Meijer is an actual crazy person who got a book deal. Seriously, these are some messed up "love" stories. They are not traditional boy meets girl, but rather boy meets and loves fire or little girl meets man and grows up to stab him, or girl only loves boy when he is arrested and talks about getting raped in jail. Yup, Meijer is a crazy person and I sort of liked it.
Just started this and read the first two stories- this is not a "normal" book, but I like it! Then again, how did I expect normal from a book with a car on fire?
so-soThis is the reason I don't impulse buy. I always do my research before buying my book. This is full of trigger warnings (rape). I finished it and I am so happy it's done. This book is like Miley Cyrus: dying to make a point but no way in hell making it. It's trying so hard to be different, strange and weird that it falls flat for me. It's like "look I can talk about pedophiles, strange sex and rape" with lots of restraint. I liked one story only.
My second reading space when I settle down for a good book. Thank goodness for my ceiling fan in this Summer heat. If I was able to participate in this weekend's readathon, you'd definitely find me here at some point as well. 😊📚 Nothing but trees and wildlife outside the window.
Book recommendation from @Liberty from the All The Books Podcast. This sounds so amazing, I can't wait to get to it.
I want to read this book! @Liberty made this sound amazing and I don't even like short stories. She spoke about it on the All the Books podcast.
HEARTBREAKER is a wonderful literary version of a kick to your solar plexus. It reminds me of Gaitskill or maybe Kelly Link in that the book shows you extreme situations & people but then tricks your brain into seeing them as familiar. Feral, desperate, depraved-but recognizable. I'm loving it.-Nici
Kids, am I right? 😂
Evening reading. 🔥
So excited to read this. And the cover is 🔥.
