Odell’s style leans heavily toward stream of consciousness and making high-level, rapid-fire connections that can take a beat to follow, so jump around if you must. “A meticulously researched, mentally stimulating scurry down the time-and-space rabbit hole … Explores its titular subject from every possible angle … Many of the hypotheses Odell brings forth are nothing new … Don’t get me wrong Odell’s rehashing of these often debated topics doesn’t make the book any less constructive or worthy of readers’ attention … It’s dense. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

–Hugh Ryan ( The New York Times Book Review)ġ. “Winn’s prose is percussive, driving the story forward with a mix of Edwardian masculine sentimentality and the improbable plotting of a period romance … The book is cut into the shape of a thousand cliffhangers, and although once or twice it strains credulity, I couldn’t put it down … Winn’s exquisite pacing lives in her syntax as much as her plot, giving vim and vigor to every line.” Elisabeth is spiky and appealingly flawed … There is something intoxicating about Reimann’s dense, jagged prose.” Lucy Jones’s translation excellently captures the dry wit, expressionistic boldness and seductively odd rhythms that make the original German so charismatic. “Reimann’s own literary style is an attempt to find space for subjectivity. The literary novel binds itself with a genre thriller in Catton’s hands … Free to play with form, Catton winds methodically through the minds of her characters … I’ll unabashedly state that Birnam Wood is a brash, unforgettable novel.”Ģ. Catton successfully scorches the earth with her prose … Little feels certain or safe. Make no mistake: It’s a book that grips you by the throat until its final paragraph. “Bold, ambitious … A grand, chilling thriller tightly bound by inescapable concerns … Birnam Wood moves at a faster clip with arguably higher stakes. Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood, Jenny Odell’s Saving Time, and Brigitte Reimann’s Siblings all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week.īrought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.”

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