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Allusion is not Illusion
You'll pry my books off my cold, dead body. By the time you shift them all I'll be flat and dessicated.
Currently reading
Winter's Tales
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Already Dead
The Rings of Saturn
Lady Audley's Secret
Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back
The City, Not Long After
You Can Sketch: A Step-by-Step Guide for Absolute Beginners
Lonely Werewolf Girl
I'm not sure why the cover and synopsis seem to imply that this book is aimed at kids and possibly even educational. Nothing about the text (other than shortness, I guess) struck me as either. It's odd and rather draft-like little novel about artist John Singer Sargent being drawn into the psychological and possibly supernatural problems of the Boit family he is hired to paint. I think I would have preferred Rees to make up his own entirely original characters rather than trying to write a fictional story using real people especially given his choice to make Mrs. Boit insane and and abusive.