Girl Meets Boy

Amazing book and fantastic writing by Smith. Her novels is well written and truly lovely and captivating to read. The whole series of books are an amazing undertaking. I enjoyed and recommend this book to people who appreciate good writing and plot

"Girl Meets Boy" is a re-telling of the myth of Iphis, which tells how love can be a transformative power, originally found in Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Ovid's myth is about Iphis, a girl raised as a boy by her mother, because her father threatened to kill her child at birth if she was a girl. She falls in love with Ianthe and, in order to marry her, she must be transformed into a boy by the Gods. In Ali Smith's contemporary... Read Full Review

I genuinely love Ali smith's prose; I'll admit that right away. I fall in love with her enticing and exuberant language with each book she creates. In this slim, almost too-cutesy-seeming novel, Smith provides a lovely, lyrical love story that tackles issues from feminism to the age of global commerce to language to sexuality to myth and story-telling, to familial relations. Please, keep writing, Ali! If only to prove that... Read Full Review

"Now I'd become a walking fuse, like in that poem about the flower, and the force, and the green fuse the force drives through it; the force that blasts the roots of trees was blasting the roots of me, I was like a species that hadn't even realised it lived in a near-desert til one day its taproot hit water. Now I had taken a whole new shape. No, I had taken the shape I was always supposed to, the shape that let me hold... Read Full Review

I love the patter, pattern and playfulness in the rhythmic language of this book. The story has a pointed moral purpose and I commend Smith for weaving so well her outward purpose into the most joyful and passionate prose I have come across in a long while. This book begs, howls, screams for reading out loud. Grab a dear lover or dear friend and speak the words to the wind or the fire and to each other and grow closer and... Read Full Review