It’s an odd experience reading here because you know when you start anything that you’re not going to finish it so it isn’t like reading a real book. I’m not really interested in “stories” – which is what most of the books here are. It’s a bit like judging an endless array of suburban gardens – how well manicured are the arrangements of shrubbery, how pleasing are the contrasts of colour in the flowerbeds? Few of them though are anywhere one would even want to spend an afternoon. So consequently I tend to focus on style – and shelve the books that make me jealous. I’ve no idea if Invisible fathers is a good novel - because I haven't read enough of it to know if its architecture is sound - but it’s certainly exciting in terms of its voice, subject matter and choreography of language. view book
Read chapters one and thirty three. Great voice to this and heaps of craft in its choreography. The prose consistently has an exciting twist in its tail and pulses with vitality. Speaks the language of the decade in which we live too, which seems to be a rare quality on this site. Great stuff. view book
Great writing. I really enjoyed this. view book
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I greatly enjoyed the first chapter of your book. I liked the mysterious girl as the healing agent of fate. It was a poignant means of announcing a world that has an underlying logic and pattern to it. And I had a real sense of the era and environment. Christabel. view book
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