Magazine Sukkos 2024 fiction supplements

booboo24

Tue, Oct 22 2024, 4:36 am

s1 wrote:

I only read calligraphy and wasn't over wowed. The stories were sweet but nothing special. The only one I loved was the one about the boy in yeshiva and the new Maggie shiur.

Agreed. I was not impressed with calligraphy this year.

amother

↑ Bellflower

Tue, Oct 22 2024, 6:56 am

cupcake123 wrote:

I loved the one with diamond in the calligraphy and also the story with the boy and his rebbe and friend that lost mom
The real estate one was also pretty good

Totally forgot the Diamond one what was it about again?

MGmom

Tue, Oct 22 2024, 7:11 am

Last couple of years have been pretty meh. Maybe I feel too intelligent for such shallow plots. But the Ami really pulled off decent this chag. The story from house in fleishmans really gave the readers a lot of fuzzy feelings from family to disconnection to connection again. Was very relatable and real. I felt like they portrayed a lot without having things said. The way the mother remarried. The relationship she had in the first marriage… oh and the ex wife’s care ride! My gosh! 🤔 someone’s horror based on a true story with ‘names have been changed’ .

asmileaday ↓

Tue, Oct 22 2024, 8:10 am

amother Bellflower wrote:

Totally forgot the Diamond one what was it about again?

The child of holocaust survivors who so badly wanted to have a better marriage than his parents and just didn't know how.
I really liked that story.

↑ asmileaday ↓

Tue, Oct 22 2024, 8:11 am

I also liked the one with the house in Fleishmanns. Made me tear up.
Family relationships can be so complicated and powerful.

↑ asmileaday

Tue, Oct 22 2024, 8:13 am

I have no opinion on the quality of all the supplement stories. I'm not the best writer myself.
I used to be a total bookworm but since having kids and raising a family my reading time has been severely restricted. So I don't get to read much and can't compare it to much else.
The few minutes I did have time to read this yomtov I enjoyed it. Didn't get through everything yet.

nachasmom

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 4:58 pm

It was a beautiful Yom Tov and after exhausting preparations I sat down to relax and read my magazines. A terrible disappointment. I buy the magazines and read the stories for uplifting spiritual times. Not to get depressed, confused and above all a sprained wrist (the magazines were very heavy). There were some nice stories but most were disappointing.

amother

Cantaloupe ↓

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 6:12 pm

amother Babyblue wrote:

The last story in ami I didn't chap
They were talking about her who dropped her friend
And therefore what? She was wrong?

I did not understand it either.
It kept mentioning that the friendship was one sided (she made her friends bar mitzva) and wasn't even thanked...but then she has memories laughing and hashing over every detail of her last kimpeturin stay...so her friend was interested and invested in details in her life?
that doesn't sound like a one sided friendship...

Amelia Bedelia

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 7:02 pm

amother Cantaloupe wrote:

I thought that was part of the problem and the point of the story. That Hindy was convinced that it was a one-sided friendship but she didn't realize how much she actually gained from Malka.

SuperWify

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 8:05 pm

I don’t understand the Cantonist story because kasha is made from oats and buckwheat. How can that not be Chametz? Also infuriated me that the man became his brother in law and rav. But was super emotional and well written.

amother

Stonewash ↓

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 8:09 pm

I really enjoyed both ami and misphacha's supplements. The stories weren't the esoteric no-ending ones, and there were a bunch of home runs. The diamond story, the cantonist, the teacher, and a couple others were excellent.

amother

Coral ↓

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 8:13 pm

SuperWify wrote:

Pretty sure kasha is buckwheat which isn’t chametz.

a2z

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 8:13 pm

SuperWify wrote:

Buckwheat is not wheat and therefore not chametz, grain which has risen. However it included in the general class of kitniyot, foods that Ashkenazim (and some Sephardim) may not eat on Passover.

This is what Google told me.🤷‍♀️

amother

Denim

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 8:18 pm

which one are people referring to as the principal/teacher one? Was that the one toward the end of Family First?

I LOVED Super Bubby!

↑ GLUE

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 8:27 pm

Anyone read the Yatted stories?

The one "They came for Mutty" I was trying to figure out what was the point they where trying to bring out, what was the angle.

The one where the father was taking his four married kids to Greece for Sukkos.
It came in four parts it would have been interesting if they also put the fathers perspective in.
I don't feel bad for the new son-in-law, that's what happens when Papa pays the bills, you don't want to go to Greece don't take his support.
The oldest daughter I hear her. I would love to know, what would happen if she told her father I can't go because then the tuition commity is going to drive me crazy.

amother

↑ Babyblue ↓

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 8:52 pm

GLUE wrote:

ye that story about mutty was sad
I wonder if that happens
Something to consider

amother

↑ Waterlily

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 10:23 pm

I enjoyed every story in the Ami collection. The first one (Fleischmann) was definitely a winner!

amother

↑ Coral ↓

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 10:29 pm

Anyone noticed that like three of the stories in the Ami supplement had someone named Gedalya? So random.