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No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
23 reviews
curiosophie's review against another edition
dark
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship
Moderate: Pedophilia
Minor: Animal death, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship
baielleebooks's review
Sadly surprised that I didn't vibe with this collection! The short stories contained strong emotional themes; longing to be in someone else's present, the faraway fantasy lands we create in times of loneliness etc. But, mostly, the stories themselves didn't hold much meat on the bone for me. The Man on the Stairs and This Person were the two I did enjoy.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship
Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, and Sexual content
asoudman's review
mysterious
fast-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Pedophilia
mikaalyssa's review
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
I read this collection almost 4 months ago and still think about it (negatively, make of that what you will).
I’ve seen blurbs and other reviews that have called this “laugh out loud funny”, “tender”, “sexy”, and “feel-good” and I feel like we didn’t read the same book?
Please read the content warnings first, do not go into this blind thinking it’s a book of sweet or heartwarming stories.
Incest and pedophilia are common themes. Maybe the moral responsibility is on the reader? Because I didn’t feel judgement reflected in the characters/narrators or author. If so, that did not make this book “quirky” for me.
It felt like I was playing a game of Cards Against Humanity, and Miranda July is that player who puts down the extra inappropriate card just to watch another player have to read it out loud.
Two stars because a lot of the writing is actually really beautiful, out of context.
I’ve seen blurbs and other reviews that have called this “laugh out loud funny”, “tender”, “sexy”, and “feel-good” and I feel like we didn’t read the same book?
Please read the content warnings first, do not go into this blind thinking it’s a book of sweet or heartwarming stories.
Incest and pedophilia are common themes. Maybe the moral responsibility is on the reader? Because I didn’t feel judgement reflected in the characters/narrators or author. If so, that did not make this book “quirky” for me.
It felt like I was playing a game of Cards Against Humanity, and Miranda July is that player who puts down the extra inappropriate card just to watch another player have to read it out loud.
Two stars because a lot of the writing is actually really beautiful, out of context.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Pedophilia
rebeccadiv's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, and Pedophilia
Minor: Animal death
six9's review
dark
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I enjoyed the voice and storytelling aspect of this book, but the subject matter of most of the short stories was challenging to get through. I wouldn’t recommend, necessarily, but I don’t regret reading it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Incest
yoyi_beth's review
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Animal death
americattt's review against another edition
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
“We had loved people we really shouldn’t have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.
Always running and always wanting to go back but always being further and further away until, finally, it was just a scene in a movie where a girl says hello into the cauldron of the world and you are just a woman watching the movie with her husband on the couch and his legs are across your lap and you have to go to the bathroom.”
favorite stories: this person + ten true things
Always running and always wanting to go back but always being further and further away until, finally, it was just a scene in a movie where a girl says hello into the cauldron of the world and you are just a woman watching the movie with her husband on the couch and his legs are across your lap and you have to go to the bathroom.”
favorite stories: this person + ten true things
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia
Minor: Incest
scholarschism's review
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Bleak. Weirdly sexual throughout, like way more than I would have guessed. Complex representations of queer attraction but few people are actually gay? Some moments of interesting prose, but it was ultimately a chore to finish. I don’t think I will find myself looking back on these stories much, but maybe they’ll take on more interest in hindsight? I wonder if I just don’t “get it”… there were moments of resonance, but it overall felt mostly flat, to me
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment
cyb's review against another edition
1.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Pedophilia