How Fiction Works - again

[Bekah]

Omg -  I've not done this before -  I thought I'd read Wood's  book but couldn't find it in my collection(s).  So I bought it again.  

Well this morning I was going through my old reviews looking for something else and voila!  There it is - a blurb for the darned thing on my old iWeb site - I'd read it on my Kindle.   Now this is becoming a small issue for me -  finding books when you don't know HOW you read them,  which determines whether they will be Kindle files,  Audio files or Paper books in bookcases.  Ah well - progress …   

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How Fiction Works by James Wood
finished 8/23/09
US – 2009 – 288 pages
rating 8

A brief, very entertaining and informative book.  The best chapters are “Consciousness,”  (the pov of the intimate third person),  ”Language,”  ( metaphors)  and “Truth, Convention, Realism.”   Wood has organized his work into 10 sections (2 of which deal with Flaubert) within which he has short numbered sections.   It’s easy to read parts of and pick up again.

“Realism is a genre rather than, say, a central impulse in fiction making.”  (Wood is discussing Rick Moody’s style.)

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So what shall I do with the book coming in the mail today?  (lol)  I guess I'll stick it in my stacks so I remember I have it and that I've read it -  I may re-read a bit -  ??? 

Bekah