After delighting in another Victorian crime fiction series (the Lady Emily Ashton books by Tasha Alexander, recommended by the ever reliable A Work In Progress) I had some difficulty on deciding which book to read next. I felt like a book of short stories, which fortunately my TBR shelf isn’t short of. But then I [...]
Entries from May 2008
4 May, 2008
A wrap-up of this week’s reading
I started of this week by finishing How fiction works by James Wood. It is a clearly and sometimes caustically written study of the main elements of fiction (narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue and so on) from a personal point-of-view i.e what James Wood thinks works and what he thinks doesn’t, and why. As [...]
