Month: September 2023
-
Something to Do
The Bee Sting, for me, is another insta-buy from the 2023 Booker longlist. Here’s four notes on its first three paragraphs, which hooked me with their exposition of a world I’d be equally thrilled and anxious to enter.
-
Certain Things Beginning to Arise
How cool is a first paragraph if almost every sentence in it could be used as a first sentence?
-
The Night Has Come, With the Morning Come
This opening promises either a pretentious or a poetic book, but either way it’s not for those who like regular sentences.