Conceit
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385662055 (038566205X)
Publish date: August 28th 2007
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Pages no: 402
Edition language: English
There is a certain eternalness about the characters who are carved so sharply, so beautifully from the words that flow together as poetry. This was a beautiful book - it is a classic. And I am entirely enamored by the world created by Novik. The story of Pegge, who might have been Cinderella in some...
Ack, this one just wasn't grabbing me. I may try once more before it goes back. Or perhaps not.
I tried, I really did. But at 200 pages I gave up the ghost. I'm not willing to blame this on the book - I love Donne's poetry but had little interest in reading about his romance with Anne. I didn't mind Pegge and was intrigued by her story enough to persist, but that's interrupted in the middle by...