Magic for Beginners

Beautiful, sad, funny. A great book to carry around with you. Wow.

Uhhh... you know that thing when you can recognize that something is well-done and still not like it that much?

That is how I felt about this book. I had to abandon a few of the stories halfway through because they were too scary. A lot of them were just like... really, beautifully, weird. Too weird for me, maybe? And I feel like my bar for weird is pretty high? But the weirdness was really well done.

I have rarely been so torn about a book. I would definitely recommend it to particular people, but it was ultimately just not my style. The stories were just a little too surrealist for my taste. That being said, the stories had great atmosphere. Stone animals in particular was just unsettling enough, like a dream that scares you but you can't describe why.