No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories (edit title)

• Rated 2 stars

“I loved Miranda July's movie "Me, You & Everyone Else We Know" and thought she was very original. This book is original, but that did not make me like it. There were only a couple stories that I loved, and found the rest all too focused on sexual topics & references.”

• Rated 5 stars

“This blew me away. Outrageously odd and wrenching but funny and stimulating. Quirky short stories that really take you places. She's a peculiar one Miranda July. I knew that from the movie she wrote, directed and STARRED in (my idol?) You Me and Everyone We Know. See it. ”

• Rated 5 stars

“"....i ran a bath.just before i stepped in the tub, i heard the front door close and froze midstep; she was gone.sometimes she did this.in moments when other couples would fight or come together, she left me.with one foot in the bath, i stood waiting for her return.i waited an unreasonably long time, long enough to realize that she wouldn t come back tonight.but what if i waited it out, what if i stood here naked until she returned?and then, just as she walked in the front door, i could finish the gesture, squatting in the then-cold water.i had done strange things like this before.i had hidden under cars for hours, waiting to be found; i had written the same word seven thousand times attempting to alchemize time.i studied my position in the bathtub.the foot in the water was already wrinkly.how would i feel when night fell?and when she came home, how long would it take her to look in the bathroom?
would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone?....."”

• Rated 1 stars

“A book of short stories, 16 in all.

I'm not really a short story fan but bought this to read around other books.

For me it was disappointing. The characters were not fleshed out, the topics were sometimes a bit disconcerting but in what felt like a bid to shock for the sake of it and in the end it was just a little too offbeat for my taste.

Easy to read but then so is a cereal packet where there's more profundity to be had in my view - harsh I know - but I wouldn't recommend this.
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• Rated 1 stars

“Oh this was so tragically awful. Poorly written, crude, unimaginative. Ugh, Miranda July. Sometimes she's cute and witty but other times I just plain dislike her. This entire book was one of those times. Furthermore, it doesn't take any more introspect than being a twelve year old girl to write something like this. This book sucks. Ughhhh. Adding awkward sexual fantasied does not make something good, or meaningful. This is one of those times I'm just MAD that some people get published.”

• Rated 0 stars

“i am reading this in the tub. each story i read seens to fit the day and what i am working on thinking about. i think this is a keeper...”

• Rated 0 stars

“This book gets no stars its just too weird and its all over the place. I had hoped it would be funny it wasn't could not finish it. I got to page 75.”

• Rated 4 stars

“I stole this from my brother's bookshelf one night when I ran out of library books unexpectedly (I was actually looking for 'Water for Elephants"). It was good...it was a little awkward knowing that my brother had read it, because it's sort of...well, it's special.”