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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. […]
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Certain Things Beginning to Arise
How cool is a first paragraph if almost every sentence in it could be used as a first sentence? […]
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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. […]
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Only Then Does
Three thoughts on three words and what difference they make in the opening of All the Little Bird-Hearts, and a gratuitous thought about eggs. […]
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Four Notes on Sixteen Varietes of Apples
A few thoughts about two or three lists, featuring a short and nonspecific appreciation of Mr Harding’s writing. […]
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Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps, Maybe
So much speculation. Couldn’t the author decide what is what? […]
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Putative Relatives
Granny flats, brown darknesses, invisible gardens. […]
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How Angry Caro Is
Also how irritated. […]
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Das Verdampfen von Saft
Heute habe ich Tomatenmark gekauft und die Verpackungsangaben gelesen. […]
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