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P.A.’s 2025 Year in Books
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P.A. Swanborough
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Red Gifts in the Garden of Stones: A tale of grief and ghosts and at least one small dog
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| I'm writing this review a good year after finishing the book. Life happened and all the things... so my memory of the exact details is not great. I'll just say that if life would kindly get out of the way for a bit, and if I can find my copy of this ...more | |
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| An excellent dive into a troubled family. Swaying between grating selfishness, cloaked greed, grudging or freely-given affection, hopeless addiction, unqualified love, and the struggle for each one's place in whatever sunshine the father has allowed ...more | |
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"This is the kind of book that grabs your heart and keeps you reading late into the night. In a small rural town, the story opens with the matriarch relating their families fall from grace as one after another of her children defy their bright beginni"
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"Gorgeous book! I've read all of Janet Peery's books, and I've loved them all, but I think this might be her finest. Or maybe I was just so thirsty for her sentences, with syntax so taut that they sing. It is a beautiful portrait of an adult family do"
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By page 57 I'm wondering when the story actually gets going. By page 86 I keep checking the blurb on the back cover because I'm getting the feeling they're not talking about the same book; they keep saying it's a riot, for a start... There's an awful l ...more |
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| An excellent dive into a troubled family. Swaying between grating selfishness, cloaked greed, grudging or freely-given affection, hopeless addiction, unqualified love, and the struggle for each one's place in whatever sunshine the father has allowed ...more | |
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| Utterly delighted in this work. The story feels like it might be predictable at any point but consistently delivers fresh storyline and refreshing insights. So much so that I was struggling to refer to the 'bot' as such and — after consulting a robot ...more | |
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"rollercoaster of opinions on this one"
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“Fiction is most effective when its themes are unspoken. An ideal fiction has a kind of thematic ghostliness, whereby the novel marks its meanings most strongly as it passes, as it disappears, rather as on a street snow gets dirtier, more marked, as it disappears.”
― The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
― The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
“If religion is true, one must believe. And if one chooses not to believe, one’s choice is marked under the category of a refusal, and is thus never really free: it has the duress of a recoil.” With literary belief, however, “one is always free to choose not to believe.” This, Wood argues, is the freedom of literature; it is what constitutes its “reality.”
― The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
― The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
“The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.”
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“fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.”
― How Fiction Works
― How Fiction Works
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