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Monthly Archives: May 2012
The About Video
This is a link to nobodyjones’s blog post: “On critiquing, reviewing and writing about children’s literature“ And this is Joanne Harris’s article: “Criticism is fine, but do you have to spoil the plot?“
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Tagged about, blogging, blogs, book reviewing, book reviews, criticism, literary criticism, plot, plot summary, review process, video
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Varamo
Varamo is a novel by César Aira and translated into English by Chris Andrews, © New Directions 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, masterpiece, novel, perspective, reality, supernatural, translation, writing, writing process
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Spurious
Spurious is a novel by Lars Iyer, © Melville House 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged academics, apocalypse, beckett, blanchot, book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, fragments, funny, kafka, knowledge, nihilism, novel, philosophy, postmodernism, questions
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The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth
The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth is a collection of poems by Joshua Marie Wilkinson, © Tupelo Press 2009 If you’d like a helping hand with this one, click the Tupelo Press link for a cool little Reader’s … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, collage poetry, contemporary poetry, forgetting, frames, language, loss, memory, perspective, photography, poetry, reading process
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