I like to keep my reading regime pretty diverse--a little bit of everything mixed in there. Years ago in Barnes and Noble, my mother handed me a copy of Possession, saying it sounded like something I might enjoy. Since then it kept getting shoved to the bottom of my TBR pile, and I kept hearing from...
A.S. Byatt's 1990 novel follows the story of Roland Mitchell and Maud Bailey, two literature academics who each specialise in 19th century poets-Mitchell in Roland Ash and Bailey in Christabel LaMotte. They are thrown together when Roland discovers draft letters in a copy of a book that Ash once own...
There is no excuse for me having spent so much time reading this really, really good novel. It’s absurd. I blame it on the lovely, hot, suffocating weather and too many days spent at wonderful Portuguese beaches which completely whack out my concentration and ability to process sentences while someo...
Overall, I actually enjoyed parts of this book tremendously. The main fictional literary characters of Christabel Lamott and R.H. Ash as well as the modern characters of Maude and Roland were interesting and complex. Their stories kept me coming back. What slowed me down and what I found less com...
Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on our neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word burns and shines hard and clear and infinite and exact, like stones of fire, like points of stars in the dark... -Possession, Pg. 512How do I write a review worthy of suc...
Awesome. LOVED it and couldn't put it down. I felt that it ended far too neatly, but you can't give seperate ratings for the last hundred pages of a book.
I suspect that whether you will love this book or not depends heavily on how much you enjoy literary criticism. I happen to love Victorian novels, so I had hopes for this one in spite of my dislike of literary criticism. Unfortunately, I found the modern characters to be irritating and pretentious...
For me, Possession is like a bottle of wine or a box of really good chocolate (the really, expensive and sinfully good kind). There is an aboluste beauty in this book, and it seems to lie in the details. How all the characters still in character, the resolution to both romances at the end, all the...
Too much work for too little reward.I read somewhere that if you pick up a book, and you're not enjoying it by either: a) your age (if you are under 50); or b) 100 minus your age (if you are over 50), you should abandon it and move on. There is too much to read and life is too short to be spent re...
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