I don't even know where to begin with this book. I bought a used copy from Abebooks because it's on my Round 2 Classics Club list, and I've been meaning to reread it. I read it for the first time decades ago, around the time that it won the Booker Prize. I remember really loving it when I first read...
3.8 stars really for minor imperfections in the whole 'detective' plot but it's still a dazzling novel for readers written by a passionate reader. I liked the French Lieutenant's Woman better (even though on the whole it's a less polished novel). Can someone write a properly introspective, feminist...
A. S. Byatt’s Possession is a deeply peculiar book. It won the Booker Prize when it was published in 1990, and as the Booker judges and I tend to have similar taste and the blurb intrigued me, I decided to give this one a go. How to describe Possession? Possession is what you might get if Dan Brow...
This book is indulgent. In its language, plot, characters, it was thick with it.But I liked it, really really liked it. Sometimes I like to read a book that doesn't so much draw you into it, but instead oozes into your life. It wasn't that I became preoccupied with the story or the characters, I'd r...
I did ultimately love this book, but it took me over half its length to warm up to it. I enjoy literate love stories, the mixing of genres, literary allusions and pastiches, and this book provides all of the above. This is a literary mystery as well as a contemporary and a historical romance: two co...
bookshelves: published-1990, victoriana, one-penny-wonder, booker-winner, fradio, paper-read, winter-20112012, re-read, film-only, mystery-thriller, poetry, play-dramatisation, 3m-bookshelf-challenge Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Brazilliant Laura Read from January 01, 2009 to January 07, 2012, read...
It struck me that I do like riddles. Intelligent ones, and meaningful, too. Just like with [b:The Blind Assassin|78433|The Blind Assassin|Margaret Atwood|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327876197s/78433.jpg|3246409], I was enchanted by Possession's world. I held my breath, waiting to see...
This is a difficult book to review because I simultaneously like it and don't like it. I read two versions of the story. First, I read the ebook version which was quite long and tedious. I've done my fair share of scholarship and the book just brought back so many boring memories. The other version ...
One of my all time favorite novels and the only Byatt novel (as opposed to short fiction) that I love unambivalently. She takes a mystery, mixes in a modern day story of ambitious academics and swirls in two passionate love stories to make a substantial, entertaining and very satisfying literary no...
In many ways, this story completely fits the profile of books that I love to read. Modern day story, with a parallel Victorian mystery in the past - what is there not to love? I thoroughly enjoyed the main story - Roland Mitchell and Maud Bailey, 2 academics who studied Victorian poets Roland Mitc...
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