http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/05/24/reading-and-sleeping/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:45:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/05/24/reading-and-sleeping/#comment-230 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Literary Detective Work Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:43:17 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/05/24/reading-and-sleeping/#comment-230 [...] I finished reading William Brodrick’s The Gardens of the Dead today at lunch and then spent an inordinate amount of time puzzling over what seemed to be contradictory events in the ending. Everything made sense, and then it didn’t, but all the characters were acting as if everything still made sense. I even went into Bill’s office and hashed it out with him: “The first 333 pages are brilliant, and then there’s this bizarre, I don’t know, is it some kind of sophisticated parable?” [...] […] I finished reading William Brodrick’s The Gardens of the Dead today at lunch and then spent an inordinate amount of time puzzling over what seemed to be contradictory events in the ending. Everything made sense, and then it didn’t, but all the characters were acting as if everything still made sense. I even went into Bill’s office and hashed it out with him: “The first 333 pages are brilliant, and then there’s this bizarre, I don’t know, is it some kind of sophisticated parable?” […]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/05/24/reading-and-sleeping/#comment-201 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Literary Detective Work Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:06:27 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/05/24/reading-and-sleeping/#comment-201 [...] « Reading and Sleeping Getting Better » [...] […] « Reading and Sleeping Getting Better » […]

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