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Dewey’s Read-a-Thon: Hour 5

Pages Read This Hour: 92 Minutes Spent Reading This Hour: 29 Books Read This Hour: Reservation Blues by Sherman ALexie Total Pages Read: 356 Books Completed: 2 ( Disquiet by Julia Leigh, Expat ed. by Christina Henry de Tessan) Tot. Mini-Challenges Participated In: 6 Tot. Minutes Spent Reading: 170 Minutes Spent Blogging/Mini-Challenge-ing This Hour: 9 Tot. Minutes Spent Blogging/Mini-Challenge-ing:...

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And another thing … fiction as “so much more than narrative’s slave”

... work of literature. Today, cleaning out an old filing tray, I found it: a very positive review of Julia Leigh’s wonderful novella Disquiet by one of our finest contemporary writers, Kirsty Gunn – ironically, also in the Observer . I quote: Poor fiction. Seems all it gets to do these days is tell stories. One barely picks up a review of even the most serious literary work without reading...