{"id":9574,"date":"2016-04-25T17:29:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T22:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2016-12-13T19:48:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T01:48:30","slug":"what-is-not-yours-is-not-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/what-is-not-yours-is-not-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Not Yours Is Not Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This collection of short stories is magical. It is unreal and beautifully written. I will be honest, this is not my genre. I don&#8217;t usually gravitate towards the magical realism realm but I kept going back for Oyeyemi&#8217;s words. She doesn&#8217;t mince words. She draws you to a comfortable yet precarious place with her words.<\/p>\n<p>There are 9 stories in the book and the characters keep reappearing in other stories making the book take shape of a loosely put together novel. There is also the underlying theme of keys and locks binding the stories.<\/p>\n<p>I would be lying if I said I fell in love with the book. Her works left me perplexed and yet enchanted (how is that even possible<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1223-e1461623352851-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"Helen_O Book\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1223-e1461623352851-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1223-e1461623352851-768x981.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1223-e1461623352851-801x1024.jpg 801w, https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1223-e1461623352851.jpg 1814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/>I have heard about Helen Oyeyemi&#8217;s works. Who hasn&#8217;t? I am a little late to the party. I haven&#8217;t read any of her previous works. What is Not Yours Is Not Yours took me to a world I have never experienced before.?). \u00a0I feel in love with Oyeyemi&#8217;s prose and storytelling skill. The titles of the stories are perfect. My personal favorite is <em>&#8220;Sorry&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t Sweeten her Tea.\u00a0<\/em>Some stories are more obviously more successful than others. The first story\u00a0<em>Books and Roses<\/em> mixes takes you to medieval times and <em>Is Your Blood as Red as This\u00a0<\/em>has ghosts and puppets and more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A library at night is full of sounds: The unread books can&#8217;t stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is definitely not a book you read in a rush. This\u00a0is a book that needs you completely present between the lines. It is a book that you read once, twice and many more times and still be unsure if you like it or not. If you are a magical realism lover, you have to read Oyeyemi NOW.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She wants to see good hearts and good brains put to proper use, but I&#8217;m not convinced that everybody ought to live like that, or even that everybody can.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This collection of short stories is magical. It is unreal and beautifully written. I will be honest, this is not my genre. I don&#8217;t usually gravitate towards the magical realism realm but I kept going back for Oyeyemi&#8217;s words. She doesn&#8217;t mince words. She draws you to a comfortable yet precarious place with her words. There are 9 stories in the book and the characters keep reappearing in other stories making the book take shape of a loosely put together novel. There is also the underlying theme of keys and locks binding the stories. I would be lying if I said I fell in love with the book. Her works left me perplexed and yet enchanted (how is that even possibleI have heard about Helen Oyeyemi&#8217;s works. Who hasn&#8217;t? I am a little late to the party. I haven&#8217;t read any of her previous works. What is Not Yours Is Not Yours took me to a world I have never experienced before.?). \u00a0I feel in love with Oyeyemi&#8217;s prose and storytelling skill. The titles of the stories are perfect. My personal favorite is &#8220;Sorry&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t Sweeten her Tea.\u00a0Some stories are more obviously more successful than others. The first story\u00a0Books and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[343,1037,398,1400],"class_list":["post-9574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library","tag-book","tag-book-recommendations","tag-book-review","tag-what-is-not-yours-is-not-yours"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is Not Yours Is Not Yours &#8212; PoohsDen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Review of the book What is Not Yours Is Not Yours - a collection of short stories which have a touch of magic in them. 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