The City of Nothing-in-the-World: This story was fascinating to me. It starts off with a girl who shins her knee and goes to look for cooling ointment but her aunt does not have any. Her aunt tells her to take two eggs and to go trade it for the ointment. On the way she loses the eggs and then ends up doing a sort of exchange with everything that she ends up with. It was a creative story but it was hard to follow at times. I liked it though because everything was so unexpected in every part of the story.
Susku and Mushu: This story caught my attention because of the flow that it had. It started when the beetle falls into a pot. Then her husband, Mushu, pours ashes on his head. The story adds animals which add their part to the story and it repeats itself over and over again. It made it fun to read because I felt like I could read the stories faster and faster each time.
Nim Tanak, or Half-Boy: This is a story about a half-boy. His father had been given 4 apples to give to his infertile wives to each have one and they will be able to get pregnant. One wife only ate half of the apple and therefore gave birth to the half-boy. The half-boy is disowned but at the end of the story he is able to rescue his siblings and gain his father's love. I like stories where the person that nobody put any thought into, is the one that saves everyone in the end. I like when the hero of a story is the one that nobody would suspect.
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