Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane WilliamsMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
A bunch of stories(?) thrown together, 40, and you choose if they make sense to you individually or in juxtaposition. These are as brief as a short paragraph or as long as 2 1/2 to 3 pages. In each one, you're walking in in the middle, so you listen closely to see if you understand 'the bigger picture'. In any case, Williams' prose is exactingly written to evoke some sentiment and whether the reader sees a whole painting or 'just enough' detail is entirely up to her. I enjoyed many of the pieces, but never felt grounded in the work.
Maybe, in the editing, she cut away too much, but the author strikes me as the type who would never admit to such. She stated somewhere that some critic complained, "These are not stories," and sounded offended that there are readers out there who might not get her intentions. To each, his own.
Fine, fine, fine, maybe not so fine...
