Midge Raymond's Reviews
Reviews of Midge’s Work
Jun.04.2011
Published by 5 Minutes for Books
“Raymond is a tantalizing author ... Forgetting English is an enticing look at travel as a metaphor for change and growth."
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Jun.22.2011
Published by Diary of an Eccentric
“Raymond does a wonderful job giving us a peek at the lives of these characters...In few words, Raymond conveys a myriad of emotions, brilliantly showcasing anger and despair,...
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Sep.06.2011
Published by Raging Bibliomania
“Both stylistically simple and deeply poignant, Raymond imbues the women in this collection with both wise self-assessment and heartbreaking reality, giving her readers an...
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Sep.05.2011
Published by Write Meg
“Midge Raymond’s Forgetting English offers readers vignettes with a common theme: every story involves a stranger in a strange land...Regardless of where they start out, how we...
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Feb.01.2010
Published by Luxury Reading
Midge Raymond will soon become one of your favorite authors.
Readers will get more than just a lift from Forgetting English. The venues are unfamiliar, with stories from Tonga,...
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Jan.01.2010
Published by The Short Review
Travel and exploration, how it connects and disconnects us, how familiar problems in unfamiliar locations can sometimes force us to see who we really are and where we've come from...
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Dec.10.2009
Published by A Reader's Respite
A Reader's Respite has probably mentioned our increasing enjoyment of the short story format. We're pretty convinced that this is directly related to our decreasing attention span...
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Dec.04.2009
Published by The Rumpus
This brief collection of stories, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, takes readers around the world to examine familiar relationships without geographical boundaries....
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Nov.20.2009
Published by Read All Day
November 20, 2009
Forgetting English, short stories by Midge Raymond, are unsettling and tightly-recorded revelations about relationships, exploring and dissecting the connections...
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Dec.01.2009
Published by Book Chatter
The Short of It:
This collection of stories is a restorative tonic for the soul.
The Rest of It:
I am not a fan of short fiction but every now and then I give it a try and...
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Oct.07.2009
Published by Book Club Classics
“Each place is vividly realized...In addition to Raymond’s lovely characterization and sense of place, her deft use of metaphor is intuitive and contributes to the sense of...
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Sep.24.2009
Published by DC Metroreader
“Forgetting English is an exquisite thematic collection of short stories...Raymond’s masterful prose transports the reader to various locales including Antarctica, Japan, and...
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Jul.22.2009
Published by Reading Local Seattle
The most emblematic story is the excellent tale, “The Road to Hana,” which hinges on a suggested mystery and division between Ethan and Sue, the couple in the story.
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Jul.01.2009
Published by Green Hills Literary Lantern
These eight stories won the 2007 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, and prevailed, one suspects, in part because of the integrity of each combined with the degree to which they...
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Jun.07.2009
Published by Seattlest
Forgetting English is a wonderfully written, powerful compilation of short stories. After reading it, we're not surprised at all that the collection was the winner of the...
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About Midge
Midge Raymond's short-story collection, Forgetting English, received the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. Originally published by Eastern Washington University Press, it was reissued by Press 53 in April of 2011. Her stories have appeared in TriQuarterly,...
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Causes Midge Raymond Supports
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Mercy Corps, Doctors without Borders, Coffee Kids, Northwest Harvest, Treehouse for Kids, Angeline's Day Shelter for...