How does narrative impact real life? How does real life impact narrative? What is time, and how does fiction exist within it – or outside it? Paul Auster’s eleventh novel is a soup of fictional plots – at one point we are reading the summary of a novel that the character of a novel that…
Category: Book Reviews
Nascar Kind of Life
My life is speeding by faster than a drag racing redneck. Once again I find myself in the weekend, a particularly relaxing weekend at home, and look with alarm at the past blur of a week. I am thinking with discomfort about how quickly I am approaching my next birthday. Is life really going to…
Bookworm
I think I’m going to start writing some book reviews. Ask my husband, and he’ll tell you, I read about 2 books a week. Sometimes I think it’s not healthy. But I can’t not have a book going – the book of the moment is Oracle Night by Paul Auster (I read Timbuktu and have…