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Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg — book review
“Time after time my mother traded privacy, square footage, countertops, and a decent bathroom for darkroom space.” While the way in which Feast Your Eyes is framed makes for an undoubtedly interesting technique (telling the story of a fictional photographer Lillian Preston through the catalogue notes for an exhibition of her work at the Museum…
1950s, 1960s, 3 STARS, Adult, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, ART/CREATIVITY, ARTISTS, documentary style, epistolary, Feast Your Eyes, female authors, HISTORICAL FICTION, LITERARY FICTION, motherhood, mothers & daughters, museums, Myla Goldberg, navel gazing, NEW YORK, obsession, photographers, PHOTOGRAPHY, published in 2019, read in 2020 -
Wylding Hall : Book Review
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand ★★★✰✰ 3.5 stars I’ve read two other books by Elizabeth Hand, one of which I consider an all time favourite. Wylding Hall begins strongly enough. The narration uses a limiting form of structure and consists in a series of interviews with the former members of a British an acid-folk band. In the…
1970s, 20th century, 3.5 STARS, Adult, AMERICAN AUTHOR, creepy setting, documentary style, Elizabeth Hand, england, female authors, ghosts/spirits, GOTHIC, manor/big house, missing men, missing persons, modern gothic, music, music band, MYSTERY, NOVELLA/SHORT STORY, published in 2015, READ IN 2019, REVIEW, SUPERNATURAL, SUSPENSE, Wylding Hall
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