The Eye of a Needle | Cornelia Fick

Tango with Text
Apr 25, 2017
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Eye of a Needle and Other Stories; Cornelia Fick

Ms Fick has compiled a book containing many of her original short stories, some several pages, some just one or two lines, but each is powerful in its own way. From fable to fantasy and everything in between, this book showcases the author’s incredible talent. Different writing styles and genres are used, but most importantly for me, each contained comment on society as it is today. Whether it is abuse, rape, love, hate or simply respect, each story leaves the reader thinking, and the writing style of each story reinforces this. This is a book which should be used as prescribed reading for high school learners to enable them to discuss their lives and help them to recognise behaviours which are destructive so that they can find ways to change these. We so often overlook matters which are uncomfortable to us and this book brings many of these uncomfortable situations and thoughts forward for us to examine. This book of short stories is one that will stay with me for a long time. In time, I will once again read this compilation, until I am able to process the vast array of emotions each story brings forth.

The Eye of a Needle and Other Stories is highly recommended to everyone. The writing is superb, the imagery is amazing and if read in one sitting, the entire collection can be read in about three hours. Do not be put off by my thoughts on the stories it contains – each of us reads and processes information in our own way. Personally, I will be reading this collection again and again in the years to come.

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