I really was not a fan of this. Though I thought the physical writing was not bad, the actual stories completely failed to grasp me, aside from the futuristic one which was not developed nearly enough. If the entire book had been about the prisoners, with only a few mentions of how the other stories...
The Birth of Love opens with a glimpse of three of the four characters whose perspectives fill the chambers of this second novel. In a single page, readers peek into Ignaz Semmelweis’ beating, Prisoner 730004’s confinement, and Brigid’s labour pain, before being launched into the narrative proper.It...
A book about birth - it tried to be too clever and came across as pretentious and very boring.
oooh this is going to be a chore, the writing style has little merit so I am hanging on for some delicious factoids.jewel #1 - Arne Naess: it's good to have another look at this man who, incidently, has moved to the edges of suburbia now - loljewel #2 - Burton's visit to Iceland; Auden's visit to sa...
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