Book reviews
Reviews By parrish lantern
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"The imagination never stops working but we're not one jot nearer the truth,"
written: 29 Mar 2013 -
Satantango, starts in some mouldering Hungarian hamlet, the home of the workers of a collective long since closed and stripped of anything of worth, and like the inhabitants of the hamlet forgotten by the outside world. In fact the only growth market appears to be rot and spiders, very little happen... See full review
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"The imagination never stops working but we're not one jot nearer the truth,"
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Tomorrow Pamplona-Jan Van Mersbergen
written: 21 Jul 2012 -
"A boxer is running through the city. He heads down a street with tall buildings on either side, darts between parked cars, runs diagonally across a junction, down a bike path, crosses a bridge and follows the curve of the tram tracks." And now the killer line, "Anyone passing would think he was ... See full review
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Tomorrow Pamplona-Jan Van Mersbergen
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A strange quirky little book
written: 17 May 2013 -
A woman arrives from the Netherlands and sets up home in a remote farm she rents from a local. She says her name is Emilie and that she is a lecturer researching the life on Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886). On arrival she inherits the responsibility for ten geese, but slowly one by one they disappear ... See full review
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A strange quirky little book
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The Path of a True Warrior
written: 18 Jan 2013 -
"It is difficult to imagine another character from either history or literature who has captured the imagination of a people. Miyamoto Musashi did not change the politics or shape events in Japanese history. Nor did he write a work that would affect a genre of literature or poems that would become c... See full review
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The Path of a True Warrior
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Chris Emery drops you right into his poems/world
written: 11 Jan 2013 -
I'm going to steal a quote by another fabulous poet, as my link into this book. George Szirtes, states on the back cover that the poems in this collection: " are like highly compressed short stories that we enter at high speed. Once in, the place is full of vivid detail keeping our head turn... See full review
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Chris Emery drops you right into his poems/world
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Kiku's Prayer
written: 04 Jan 2013 -
Kiku's Prayer is set at the moment Japan was reaching out to modernity, in a period of immense fracture, when the nations own view of itself was becoming more divided as it faced a major internal change and also had to confront how it was perceived by the western world. It is at this point that Endo... See full review
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Kiku's Prayer
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An eleventh-hour largesse for the lexis votarient in your midguard.
written: 21 Dec 2012 -
Are you looking for that wonderful gift to present to the individual in your life who appears to have swallowed a lexicon with their mornings repast, and have you been a bit tardy in getting said article? Well fret not here is an awesome nay, Brobdingnagian offering that could easily engender feelin... See full review
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An eleventh-hour largesse for the lexis votarient in your midguard.
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Microfiction,Flashfiction, Prose Poetry?
written: 11 Dec 2012 -
Back in July, I wrote a post entitled The Tortoise & the Easter Bunny ?, this book by Lee Rourke traced a history of fables from Aesop to Flash Fiction. Whilst writing this post, I came across a few names, some known (Shane Jones) & some new to me. One of those new to me & who featured in that post ... See full review
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Microfiction,Flashfiction, Prose Poetry?
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What is amazing about this book is the diverse group of writers involved in the project, not just in style, genre etc., but geographically
written: 30 Nov 2012 -
What is amazing about this book is the diverse group of writers involved in the project, not just in style, genre etc., but geographically there are writers from countries such as Netherlands, USA, Zimbabwe, Canada, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Great Britain and Malaysia to name but a few. Sometimes you kno... See full review
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What is amazing about this book is the diverse group of writers involved in the project, not just in style, genre etc., but geographically
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Part of Plenty.
written: 23 Nov 2012 -
Sometimes you meet someone, who has been around you your whole life, and yet you had no knowledge of them. Sometimes you've circled around this person, you have been to the same parties, have had the same friends, almost at the same table, at those special occasions, weddings, christenings, all the ... See full review
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Part of Plenty.
