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Tag Archives: reading
The Last Warner Woman
The Last Warner Woman is a novel by Kei Miller, © Coffee House Press 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged apocalypse, book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, frames, gender, jamaica, knowledge, language, London, nihilism, novel, parables, readers, reading, reading process, religion, supernatural, warning, writers, writing, writing process
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Open City
Open City is a novel by Teju Cole, © Random House 2011 You hadn’t heard about Cormac’s Olivetti? Check it out.
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, classics, contemporary, contemporary fiction, debut, emotional weight, fiction, lens, lonely, narrator, new york city, novel, perspective, postmodernism, reading, trust, urban space
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The Flame Alphabet
The Flame Alphabet is a novel by Ben Marcus, © Knopf 2012 Language/GPS Article Thing: Understanding Place & Space in a Digital Babel
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Tagged apocalypse, apocalypse fiction, awkward, book review, children, contemporary fiction, first person, knowledge, language, linguisitics, novel, perspective, postmodernism, reading
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The Tragedy of Arthur
The Tragedy of Arthur is a novel by Arthur Phillips, © Random House 2011 If I piqued your interest on Bloom’s ideas, here’s a link to the Google Books result for Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human.
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Tagged book review, classic literature, classics, contemporary fiction, deception, fiction, forgery, historical fiction, inventor, knowledge, play, readers, reading, reading process, shakespeare, theater, tragedy, writing
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Reading Ulysses
Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce. First published in Paris in 1922, it’s now in the public domain but I read the Wordsworth Classics edition published in 2010. I should note that this video is something a little different … Continue reading
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Tagged book, book review, classic literature, classics, fiction, knowledge, language, Latin, novel, perspective, reading, stream of consciousness
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