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Rosie Little’s Cautionary Tales for Girls by Danielle Wood
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Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales For Girls
By Danielle Wood
My rating: stars
Rosie Little's cautionary Tale for Girls is a compliation of short stories written from the point of view of the "Author", Rosie Little and some of her friends and family. The tales are all about Love, Sex, Relationships, & Life and the events that surround them. This is an adult book with a few graphic sections, but mostly adult situations and language.
This is not a book I would recommend to many people. Some of the stories are only an uncomfortable read, while others are confusing and disjointed at best. The stories that I found just uncomfortable were tales of how Rosie lost her virginity, an older male family friend finding her attractive as a teenager, and a sad tale about an overweight cousin. These stories left me squirming in my chair, feeling embarrased and flat out uncomfortable. I don't like feeling that way in my own life, let alone reading it.
Then there were the stories that I had to re-read several times to see if I missed something that gave me a clue as to what actually happened. These were stories of murder, or poisoning or maybe it wasn't. I'm still confused as to actually what happened in these stories. I've read them several times and the endings don't really fit with the rest of the tale. You get the feeling that they are trying to be like "Twilight Zone" or "Dorian Grey" like tales, but they just miss the mark.
With all of the confusion, uncomfortable and strange feelings that I got from this book, I"d have to tell poeple not to read it. It's not worth the time or effort to read through the book. If it were a movie, I'd be mad that I spent $10 bucks on it and would have walked out of the theater.
- Publisher: MacAdam Cage (August 8, 2007)
- Author: Danielle Wood
- Pages: 248
- ISBN-10: 1596922524
- ISBN-13: 978-1596922525
About The Author:
Taking her cues from the Brothers Grimm and Scheherazade, Rosie - a thoroughly modern Little Red Riding Hood - tell us her stories of love and desire, men and women, heartache and happiness. Rosie knows better than most that some men are wolves at heart, that the snake in the grass is to be avoided, that women who live purely for their men are little better than plastic mannequins, and that fairy tale endings are, often, in the end, only fairy tales. Despite that, stout-hearted and stout-booted Rosie also shows us that there is a way out of the deep dark forests of our own making, even if it is sometimes a matter of following what appears to be breadcrumbs.
Tags: Adult Book, Adult Situations, Amp, Arts Degree, August 8, Cautionary Tales, Clue, Compliation, Confusion, Cousin, Danielle Wood, Dorian Grey, Embarrased, Family Friend, Graphic Sections, Hobart, Lost Virginity, Point Of View, Rosie, Several Times, Sex Relationships, Short Stories, Strange Feelings, Teenager, Twilight Zone, Virginity
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I haven’t read it but now it is on my list for sure…