Category Archives: Books in which Fictional Children’s Books are Used as Plot Devices and/or to give Symbooic Weight to the Protagonist’s Relationship to the Past

Final Thoughts on Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins

Posted on February 29, 2016 by lfpbe

This novel is hard to review without including “spoilers” – and there is no doubt that anticipation of the ending is a significant part of the experience of reading this novel. If you do not want to read a direct … Continue reading →

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Some Brief Inarticulate Gasps About A God in Ruins

Posted on February 28, 2016 by lfpbe

I finished it this evening – and yes, it’s fantastic. Kate Atkinson seems to be a bit of a vulture-like novelist, in that she circles, circles, circles, and then swoops (this comparison gets more interesting when you know that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Books in which Fictional Children's Books are Used as Plot Devices and/or to give Symbooic Weight to the Protagonist's Relationship to the Past, Fiction - general, Fiction - Historical, Fiction - literary, Kate Atkinson, Reviews by Bethany, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

A Review of Deborah Levy-Bertherat’s The Travels of Daniel Ascher (by Bethany)

Posted on June 7, 2015 by lfpbe

As you may have noticed, I like to invent sub-genres, and it didn’t take me many chapters into The Travels of Daniel Ascher to figure out that this newly-translated French novel is part of the subgenre I like to call … Continue reading →

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