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Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin

A play by play:


Headlights
Oh boy. I think I missed something with this tale. Not a great start.

Preserves
What... the... heck... this collection is not off to a good start for me at all. Maybe I just can’t do pregnancy tales right now?

Butterflies
Erm... what?

Mouthful of Birds - 2/5
Here we go! Finally a tale that worked for me. This one was really odd and totally unexplained, but it was quite the trip!

Santa Claus Sleeps at our House
Not a fan of this one.

The Digger
What?

Irman
Giving this one more try. Annnnd nope.

Bailing on page 75. None of this makes any sense. I loved Fever Dream, which also didn’t make sense but lived up to the title. This was just a mess of stories that may have meaning hidden in there somewhere, but it all went way over my head.

I’m actually quite angry with this one because it’s one I was so excited to jump into.