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Disorder #1-6
Disorder
Six Short Stories in the Disorder - Amazon Original Stories collection
The Best Girls - Min Jin Lee
Loam - Scott Heim
Ungirls - Lauren Beukes
Anonymous - Uzodinma Iweala
The Beckoning Fair One - Dan Chaon
Will Williams - Namwali Serpell
The Best Girls - Min Jin Lee
Loam - Scott Heim
Ungirls - Lauren Beukes
Anonymous - Uzodinma Iweala
The Beckoning Fair One - Dan Chaon
Will Williams - Namwali Serpell
- GenresHorror
175 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 19, 2019
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About the author
Min Jin Lee
18 books8,701 followersMin Jin Lee’s novel Pachinko (Feb 2017) is a national bestseller, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next Great Reads. Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (May 2007) was a No. 1 Book Sense Pick, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Wall Street Journal Juggle Book Club selection, and a national bestseller; it was a Top 10 Novels of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air and USA Today.
Min Jin went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time.
She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared most recently in One Story. Her writings about books, travel and food have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, Vogue (US), Travel + Leisure (SEA), Wall Street Journal and Food & Wine. Her personal essays have been anthologized in To Be Real, Breeder, The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work, One Big Happy Family, Sugar in My Bowl, and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time. She served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the Chosun Ilbo of South Korea.
Lee has spoken about writing, politics, film and literature at various institutions including Columbia University, French Institute Alliance Francaise, The Center for Fiction, Tufts, Loyola Marymount University, Stanford, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), University of Connecticut, Boston College, Hamilton College, Hunter College of New York, Harvard Law School, Yale University, Ewha University, Waseda University, the American School in Japan, World Women’s Forum, Korean Community Center (NJ), the Hay Literary Festival (UK), the Tokyo American Center of the U.S. Embassy, the Asia House (UK), and the Asia Society in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2017, she won the Literary Death Match (Brooklyn/Episode 8), and she is a proud alumna of Women of Letters (Public Theater).
From 2007 to 2011, Min Jin lived in Tokyo where she researched and wrote Pachinko. She lives in New York with her family.
Min Jin went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time.
She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared most recently in One Story. Her writings about books, travel and food have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, Vogue (US), Travel + Leisure (SEA), Wall Street Journal and Food & Wine. Her personal essays have been anthologized in To Be Real, Breeder, The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work, One Big Happy Family, Sugar in My Bowl, and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time. She served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the Chosun Ilbo of South Korea.
Lee has spoken about writing, politics, film and literature at various institutions including Columbia University, French Institute Alliance Francaise, The Center for Fiction, Tufts, Loyola Marymount University, Stanford, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), University of Connecticut, Boston College, Hamilton College, Hunter College of New York, Harvard Law School, Yale University, Ewha University, Waseda University, the American School in Japan, World Women’s Forum, Korean Community Center (NJ), the Hay Literary Festival (UK), the Tokyo American Center of the U.S. Embassy, the Asia House (UK), and the Asia Society in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2017, she won the Literary Death Match (Brooklyn/Episode 8), and she is a proud alumna of Women of Letters (Public Theater).
From 2007 to 2011, Min Jin lived in Tokyo where she researched and wrote Pachinko. She lives in New York with her family.
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March 13, 2021
Avg = 3.2 stars
4 - The Best Girls
4 - Loam
2 - Ungirls
3 - Anonymous
3 - The Beckoning Fair One
DNF - Will Williams
4 - The Best Girls
4 - Loam
2 - Ungirls
3 - Anonymous
3 - The Beckoning Fair One
DNF - Will Williams
February 16, 2024
Ungirls- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 (4.5)
The Best Girls- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5)
Will Williams- ⭐️⭐️ (2)
Anonymous- ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3)
Loam- ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3)
The Beckoning Fair One- ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ (4)
The Best Girls- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5)
Will Williams- ⭐️⭐️ (2)
Anonymous- ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3)
Loam- ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3)
The Beckoning Fair One- ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ (4)
June 10, 2024
An unusual collection. Seemingly-random grouping of stories; unsure what exactly is supposed to tie them all together…other than their weirdness…
Three very good novellas. One that’s adequate. Two that are bottom-of-the-barrel heinous.
Will Williams
Strongest of the bunch. When another young man at school steals Will’s flava—and, just so happens to also have the exact same name—the problems begin to arise. Very readable. Excellent use of vernacular speech. Dark, creepy, and not an expected ending.
The Beckoning Fair One
Runner-up. We follow Tyler (13) and sister Sharon (16) throughout the novella. Sharon’s premonitions, previous crushes…midnight visits, flowers, rabbit feet. A bizarre story, but oddly interesting. Cool ending.
Loam
A set of 50-year-old triplets return home to Collingwood, Kansas for their father’s funeral. Children’s games and the lies they tell, juxtaposed with horrific photos. Evil from the mouths of babes. Sinister and thought-provoking.
The Best Girls
A bleak story that’s set in Seoul, South Korea in 1989. Family and money difficulties. And a Nameless Narrative Main Character (personal pet peeve that’s more or less irredeemable). Also, frequent usage of Korean words sans translation. Grim ending for A Story to Nowhere.
Ungirls
Normally the Cape Town, South Africa setting would give this a boost. The frenetic pacing makes this story feel super scattered. Nats, one of the lead characters, looks to diversify her career. Pivoting from prostitution and pornography, she moves to suggestive voice recordings. Full of White Hatred. Extremely prejudiced against men and gay people as well.
Anonymous
From second-person present tense to Another Nameless Narrative MC, this book has…nothing going for it. Bizarre, existential, and grotesquely racist.
Three very good novellas. One that’s adequate. Two that are bottom-of-the-barrel heinous.
Will Williams
Strongest of the bunch. When another young man at school steals Will’s flava—and, just so happens to also have the exact same name—the problems begin to arise. Very readable. Excellent use of vernacular speech. Dark, creepy, and not an expected ending.
The Beckoning Fair One
Runner-up. We follow Tyler (13) and sister Sharon (16) throughout the novella. Sharon’s premonitions, previous crushes…midnight visits, flowers, rabbit feet. A bizarre story, but oddly interesting. Cool ending.
Loam
A set of 50-year-old triplets return home to Collingwood, Kansas for their father’s funeral. Children’s games and the lies they tell, juxtaposed with horrific photos. Evil from the mouths of babes. Sinister and thought-provoking.
The Best Girls
A bleak story that’s set in Seoul, South Korea in 1989. Family and money difficulties. And a Nameless Narrative Main Character (personal pet peeve that’s more or less irredeemable). Also, frequent usage of Korean words sans translation. Grim ending for A Story to Nowhere.
Ungirls
Normally the Cape Town, South Africa setting would give this a boost. The frenetic pacing makes this story feel super scattered. Nats, one of the lead characters, looks to diversify her career. Pivoting from prostitution and pornography, she moves to suggestive voice recordings. Full of White Hatred. Extremely prejudiced against men and gay people as well.
Anonymous
From second-person present tense to Another Nameless Narrative MC, this book has…nothing going for it. Bizarre, existential, and grotesquely racist.
December 4, 2024
I listened to all 6 short stories in the series because they were free on Audible. Little snippets of disturbing stories that most of the time made no sense to me.
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