Epistolary Novels: Do They Work?
Dear Reader, I hope this letter finds you well. You’d be doing better than I, because as I finish Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian, I am reminded once again that authors sometimes employ a...
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Look, I was hungry for this book. A slow-burning Dracula caper with intellectual trappings? Let’s have it! The supernatural seems all the more vivid when you’ve poured in a concrete foundation of...
View ArticleThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
God knows there’s no shortage of novels like this. A mystery centering on a love for books? I feel aggressively pandered to. I respond to booky thrillers as I would a girl wearing a Princess Leia gold...
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