The way maps to anywhere is set up is very different than I had imagined this book and actually made the reading alot more interesting. The book really shows a variety of creative language through out and would almost make these stories seem unrealisitic, considering there is so much creativity in it. This is a true example of what a creative nonfiction story should look like.
    One story that I felt really connected  to way the one about the balcony, which had a few different meanings to it in my book. The way I thought he was talking about this balcony was, not just the balcony itself but when he brought up his neice and the game they played when she was little and how she out grew it and sort of wanted the ordinary things in life. I think he ment she started to lack her imagination, and the way he ties this into the balcony is how he saw how sad it looked. Then he goes on to imagine it in a prettier view and uses his imagination on what he wanted the balcony to look like. Then it helped me tie in why he had talked about the game he used to play with his niece I feel like this was sigifigant because, at one point the balcony he is looking at, had to be full of life. In other words it could of had an imagination of its own back in the day before it had become run down, and pretty much saying time changes everything.
     Another story I liked was called "Under Water" I like this because this reminds me of somethings I used to do in the pool when I was young; such a fun game that could be dangerous at the same time. The way he refers to his moms hair like strands of seaweed and his dads swim trunks puffing up like a diaper were very creative details. Through out this story i get the feel that he loved to swim and talking about swimming with his parents brought back simpler and carefree times. The way he uses detail in this story is amazing, over all i thought this book was going to be something to do with traveling the world and was nothing of the sort. When evere you normally think of nonfiction you think of boring but this book was so creative you wouldnt even think of it as nonfiction.

   Renee gladman did some very interesting things in the book juice and her creativity was outstanding. At times she was so creative with her lanuage she chose I didn't even know what she was trying to say. But that is the point of fiction writing to take something and make it to the point it gravitates the writer to the story to the point they can't put the book down. I like the fact that she is in first person for pretty much every story in her book. I'm not sure if this symbolizes something but she sure makes you wonder. Alot of it is in her perception and mostly narrative.
    One of my favorite stories was probably proportion surving, the way she talks about life in this story. Not only is it completely interesting but it is so intriguing to almost the point you feel like you are right along with her. When she says "I knew it was me by the way my head felt: people find themselves in an idea and feel so specified by the idea that they are compelled to show it. Today all my ideas are liquid." She uses very good imagery in this and you can feel her struggles right along with the reading.  Also when she says "The juice on my mind was no longer juice. There was an absence there, but one so constant it became familiar. I did not want to drink it." she uses extreme metaphors because she obviously is not talking about juice. So what this does to me as a reader it makes me want to keep digging to find the hidden meaning behind juice, I thought she was very clever in doing that technique with this story.
    Another story I found interesting to read was no through street, this is when I started to realize how depressing this book is actually supose to be. Pretty much saying her home town has been industrialized to the point it is not even recognizable anymore and she could not deal with the change so she left town. When she came back standing on this street that she could not recognize anymore she noticed her sister who no longer recognized her. I thought wow that must be sad your own sister does not recognize you? But the whole point of this story was change, and to the point her and her sister had changed so much they didn't even have time for each other. Which led to her sister not recognizing her when coming back to town.
    The last story that popped out at me was the one in the very beginning with the first line saying "about the body I know little" I find that line disturbing pretty much saying people are nothing but bodies. I was quite confused through out this story because I had many different interprtations. I finally settled with the fact that she was a little crazy, and her thinking the town had left her was all in her mind. Alot of the things she talked about in this story were very dream like so that it where I came up with the fact she may not be all there.