Category: Magical Realism

Review: The Magician King by Lev Grossman

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

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The Magician King by Lev Grossman Final Verdict: 3.25 out of 4.0 YTD: 42 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. The Magician King is the sequel to Grossman’s 2009 novel, The Magicians (my review can be found here). Quentin Coldwater and the… Continue Reading “Review: The Magician King by Lev Grossman”

Category: Book Review, Fantasy, Fiction, GLBT, Lev Grossman, Magic, Magical Realism, Uncategorized

Review: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Posted on September 12, 2010 by

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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 50 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) I finished reading The House of the Spirits approximately 20 hours ago; I have held off on… Continue Reading “Review: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende”

Category: 1001 Books, Book Review, Creative Non-Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Isabel Allende, Latin Fiction, Literature, Magical Realism

Reviews: The Earlies, Part 10

Posted on January 10, 2010 by

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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Very beautiful… very difficult. Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card Unbelievably good sci-book. Probably the best ever. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris One of the funniest books ever. I actually ‘laughed out loud.’… Continue Reading “Reviews: The Earlies, Part 10”

Category: Creative Non-Fiction, David Sedaris, Gertrude Stein, Laura Esquival, Magical Realism, Orson Scott Card, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Robert Coover, Science-Fiction, Voltaire, William Faulkner

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