The Bus on Thursday – 4/5 Stars This was an audiobook and I hadn’t heard of it before I looked a little into and downloaded it from Overdrive. Also, had this not been Australian I might not have listened to it, and had I read the back I wouldn’t either. I also almost turned it off early on because of a kind of off-key line that I didn’t like. But something clicked in my experience at some point and I ended up really liking it. […]
An Impressionist Painting in the Form of a Novel
She has come to understand the importance of structuring details around a narrative, the expectation of histories having a beginning, a middle, and an end, though she doesn’t really believe this is the way life works: she does not know the way life works. For CBR6 last year, I reviewed Kate Walbert’s 2004 novel Our Kind and among other things I was struck by the stream-of-consciousness narration. It allowed Walbert to move back and forth through time, building a web of interconnectivity between events and […]