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. […]
How cool is a first paragraph if almost every sentence in it could be used as a first sentence? […]
This opening promises either a pretentious or a poetic book, but either way it’s not for those who like regular sentences. […]
So much speculation. Couldn’t the author decide what is what? […]
Also how irritated. […]
Heute habe ich Tomatenmark gekauft und die Verpackungsangaben gelesen. […]