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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (2016)

por Helen Oyeyemi

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The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.… (más)
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3.5 rounded up. The writing is beautiful and the stories were all enjoyable. Oyeyemi is fantastic at creating a scene and setting a mood but in some cases I wanted more substance. Will definitely read more by her. ( )
  mmcrawford | Dec 5, 2023 |
You might try, but you can't really describe Oyeyemi's style of writing. Maybe you shouldn't, it's a unique experience one must live and feel. Suffice to say that she is a storyteller. A true weaver of modern fairytales. What begins as a contemporary story ends up in the realm of mythology, rightfully living amongst the tales the brothers Grimm recorded. I got myself lost in it good this time. The high hasn't yet faded, so I'll just write down some random thoughts for each story.

books and roses
although it's one of my favorite fairytales it took me a while to get the "beauty and the beast" references. I think it was because I became instantly immersed into her universe
when I finished it I deeply craved to discuss it with someone, anyone, so I just reread it, as I did most of the stories in this volume
I still have questions, I still have things that need to be discovered, I still need to talk about it as if that would give me some closure

"sorry" doesn't sweeten her tea
this was probably the creepiest story of all
maybe because we're all creepy teenage girls in a patriarchy
witchy power to the witch
we're not yet done with Aisha and Chedorlaomer

is your blood as red as this?
this story pained me, reminding me of beautiful prague, the city that eludes me still
I make puppets, I live with their beady eyes looking at me when I sleep
I felt as if this was written just for me
all of it
it was for us

Tyche and Myrna and Radha and Gustav will come up again

drownings
drownings talks orphans and queens and kings and princesses
it talks needs and imprisonment
control and death
and fluid memories of people, like the dead, living out their days in silence

presence
a love story
a love story of nows, of could have beens, of was
a science fiction lucid dream of magical realism
of two lives
together

a brief history of the homely wench society
feminism, patriarchy and healing
through reading and kindness
lovely and heartwarming

dornička and the st. martin's day goose
dornicka is red ridding hood
or was in another timeline, or could have been, or is the grandmother
dornica is a protector

freddy barrandov checks ... in?
freddy is at a crossroad, a metaphorical one
a find-what-you-need-to-do-with-your-life one
it didn't seem odd that he chose as he did

if a book is locked there's probably a good reason for that don't you think
this one talks about others, prejudice, internalized misogyny, envy
it talks about assumptions and how we can only view other people through the lenses of our own experiences
so often we end up amongst strangers we thought we knew
just because you'd lock a book to protect your secrets doesn't mean that there's no other reason to do so


Would it top the pretentiousness charts if I said that reading this book is like making love? Do I care?
But it is, it really is. Sweet, warm, funny, draws you in, intoxicates you, enters your deepest thoughts, keeps you company, whispers in your ear, makes you want more, and at the end all you want to do is cuddle 'cause the experience was amazing but you have to rest sometime too. ( )
  Silenostar | Dec 7, 2022 |
One standout quirk of this story collection is the universe that several of the stories inhabit. This universe, a somewhat supernatural version of London, contains a group of puppeteers, living puppets, and their families and acquaintances. Though the stories focus on different characters and take place at different times, the other characters are woven throughout, sometimes as supporting characters and other times as famous names referenced by the main cast. Each story gives a glimpse into how another story turned out for its own characters of focus: the girl who harbored a teenage crush on her puppeteering apprentice in “Is Your Blood as Red as This?” shares an apartment with her years later in “Presence”; the weary older sister of a devotee to an abusive celebrity in “Sorry Doesn’t Sweeten Her Tea” studies at Cambridge in “A Brief History of the Homely Wench Society”. These intertwining stories create an intriguing world that becomes a little more realized with each piece and makes it easier to visualize the events of each story as they self-reference.
That self-referencing comes in handy, as one issue I had with the writing in general was Oyeyemi’s lack of clarifying detail. The details of most stories are either hazy and vague or simply not enough to create a satisfying mental image. For example, in “Is Your Blood as Red as This?”, the puppets are described the way a puppeteer might describe them, using puppeteering terminology that fits the continuity of the story but doesn’t provide much for the layperson to go off. Other stories, particularly the book’s “bookends,” so to speak (“Books and Roses” and “If a Book Is Locked There’s Probably a Good Reason for That, Don’t You Think”) provide ample description of the characters and setting but, to me, seem to be lacking the details that a reader would need in order to draw meaningful conclusions about the ending. It almost seems as though Oyeyemi had such vivid ideas in her head that she assumed some aspects of the plot were obvious and forgot to include the details that would lead the reader to the same conclusions.
In a similar vein, some of the worldbuilding was incredibly interesting but relegated to just a piece of exposition or a device to set the story in motion. While I think that every aspect of a story’s world and backdrop should be planned and well-thought-out, it was frustrating to read such fascinating concepts that were essentially tossed aside to make room for the plot. Things like the weight-loss clinic that puts its patients into comas in “Sorry Doesn’t Sweeten Her Tea” and the device (?) that causes grieving individuals to see apparitions of their dead loved ones in “Presence” could be entire novels on their own, so the form of the short story felt inadequate and constricting. ( )
1 vota mateoj | Jan 3, 2022 |
All of the good stories are in the beginning, which makes you eager to read and then unsatisfied. I generally like vague endings, but the majority of these stories needed fleshing out, just a little more meat on their bones. Several characters make appearances in multiple stories, but since my attention wasn't 100% on the book, I missed it a little. And when I didn't, it doesn't add much. 2.5, rounded down.

"Books and Roses" - 4
An interesting and intriguing story about a young woman and a key, and an older woman and the men who loved her. A lot is left up to the reader to infer, but there's enough provided that we can make it there.

" 'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" - 3
A "revenge of the wronged woman" story with a twist - it's not the women this celebrity has wronged that comes after him, but a disappointed fan. Overly long.

"Is Your Blood as Red as This?" - 2
A story about puppets and mysteries, what's not to love?! But it was just too obtuse to me; there were many times where I thought I knew what was going on only to realize, no, I had no idea. I still don't.

"Drownings" - 1
I don't even remember this one.

"Presence" - 4
A wonderfully strange story about a machine that's meant to help you reconnect with passed loved ones. The eeriness and the loneliness are really suffused throughout, and it's beautiful.

"A Brief History of the Homely Wrench Society" - 3
Good enough, but doesn't fit with the rest of the collection.

"Dornicka and the St. Martin's Goose" - 2
Overly long, again, and not that interesting.

"Freddy Barrandov Checks... in?" - 2
OK. Too much background that we don't know, and the story is focused on the least interesting part of a very interesting concept.

"If A Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason Why, Don't You Think?" - 2
Great title, but I don't remember it except that it left me wishing for more explanation. ( )
  Elna_McIntosh | Sep 29, 2021 |
Short stories
1. books and roses. Interesting but a lot of tangents. Girl with key left with monks, two lesbians, library and roses.
2. "sorry" don't sweeten the tea
etc

This is a book of somewhat interconnected stories with keys and puppets. I can't say I fully understand these stories but the author's writing is wonderful and easy to read. Keys would imply locks and puppets would imply being manipulated by other, etc. The not fully understanding these stories fits the title; What is not yours is not yours.... I would read more by this author.

quotes:
"as they came to understand each other they learned that what they'd been afraid of was running out of self." pg 12

"as if time was a volatile currency that they either possessed or did not possess, when in fact time was more of a fog that rose inexorably over all their words and deeds so that they were either forgotten or misremembered." pg 139

"Seems like someone behind the scenes clinging to the idea that the woman whose attention you can't get just can't see 'The real you,' no?" pg 240

"His reluctance to commit to any statment of fact feels vaguely political. pg 324 ( )
  Kristelh | Aug 22, 2021 |
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Oyeyemi has created a universe that dazzles and wounds.
 
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The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.

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