A review by mstracho
Some Things That Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr
4.0
I believe much of a book's emotional potential lives in its ability to surprise you with things more--in this case horrible--than what you imagine will happen. Its difficult for books to do that to me, but Mohr has succeeded. This book was devastating. And devastatingly beautiful.
His prose was everything I aspire to be. Both poetic and very real. The characters were unique. The world was dark and weird and both confounding but simple. He took a lot if simple things we all understand and put them together in a new and colorful way. (Which I guess is all writing ever attempts to be)
Mohr created a really good balance of questions asked and answered. A juxtaposition of humor and sadness. Great metaphors and suspension of disbelief. Will definitely be checking out his other books.
His prose was everything I aspire to be. Both poetic and very real. The characters were unique. The world was dark and weird and both confounding but simple. He took a lot if simple things we all understand and put them together in a new and colorful way. (Which I guess is all writing ever attempts to be)
Mohr created a really good balance of questions asked and answered. A juxtaposition of humor and sadness. Great metaphors and suspension of disbelief. Will definitely be checking out his other books.