#magic-realism

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To his shock, as Saarang turned the first page, the words slowly transformed into small cylinders, except for one-letter words which preferred being spheres, and started rolling toward the vertical edges of the book.

Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

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'I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.'

The late Author Extraordinaire Angela Carter.

Nights At The Circus (1984)

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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka [A Review]

I’m going to go all out and saying Shehan Karunatilaka's 2022 Booker Prize Winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is one of the finest novels I have ever read

I’m going to go all out in the opening line of this review and say that The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is one of the finest novels I have ever read, and as an English teacher and lifelong avid reader, that is really saying something. As the 2022 winner of The Booker Prize, Karunatilaka’s second novel has received much acclaim, and rightly so. It is equal parts ghost story, murder mystery,…

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Shame by Salman Rushdie [A Review]

New Review: Shame by Salman Rushdie

Shame was the first novel Salman Rushdie wrote following his brilliantly received Midnight’s Children. Short, fast-paced and powerful, Shame is a novel of a great writer in his prime, flexing the magic-realism, post-colonial, musculature he is known for. Omar Khayyam Shakil was born in the frontier town of Q to three mothers. His ancestors had been the wealthiest family in the town and, in…

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Review: Again, But Better

Review: Again, But Better

Good evening and happy Thursday! I hope you’re all having a lovely week so far. Today I’m back with a review of Christine Riccio’s debut novel Again But Better. I had a few issues with the book, but I enjoyed it overall! Hope you enjoy!! 🙂

Again, But Better by Christine Riccio Genre: Young Adult – Contemporary, Romance, Magic Realism Pages: 373 Publication Date: May 2019 My Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Rea…

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Review: The Way We Bared Our Souls

Review: The Way We Bared Our Souls

The Way We Bared Our Souls by Willa Strayhorn Genre: Young Adult – Contemporary, Magic Realism, Romance Pages: 288 Publication Date: January 2015 My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read in August 2016

Goodreads Synopsis: If you could trade your biggest burden for someone else’s, would you do it? Five teenagers sit around a bonfire in the middle of the New Mexico desert. They don’t know it yet, but they are about…

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I found it ironic that I should be blessed with wings and yet feel so constrained, so trapped. It was because of my condition, I believe, that I noticed life’s ironies a bit more often than the average person. I collected them: how love arrived when you least expected it, how someone who said he didn’t want to hurt you eventually would.

Ava Lavander

—The strange and beautiful sorrows of Ava Lavander: Leslye Walton

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Small Town America Magically Realized: Advance Review Of Middlewest #1

Small Town America Magically Realized: Advance Review Of Middlewest #1

Middlewest #1 is a magically real book and one that will have you guessing, after the first issue, what is real and what isn’t.

On the surface, this looks like the story of a son and his ever-angry trailer-trash dad never seeing eye-to-eye and the boy’s every move criticised by said father. Abel, the boy in question, is late for his usual paper round, and given that it’s Saturday, this problem…

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