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The book reads like a diary of recorded dreams, punctuated with letters. Obsession and boredom make their appearance throughout.
There is no obvious plot; the story-line consists of reported dream images, punctuated with prosaic letters from Jess.
The first long paragraph read at first like an account from the point of view of a lobster or a craw-fish. But since lobsters don’t have teeth, I quickly switched from underwater to a psychiatric ward, and thence to a coffee bar, and so forth. Still, it was sometimes difficult, on a first reading, to determine where scenes were taking place. Also, it's still not clear to me that the first-person narrator is the same from one section to the next.
The book has fresh details throughout. In the span of three pages for example, we have the description of the protagonist going up the stairs, standing aside for the ascending man, and then meeting the man again on his way back up the stairs. And then, two pages later, we read: “I stick my fingers in my ears for more sound." The descriptions are often synesthetic—a blue taste, and so forth.
M.M
Blepharospasm details the perspectives of a man in a dreamlike, even nightmarish world, and comes to life when the reader realizes that the book reads as though the character has scribed it. It is not often that such a work is introduced in the literary community that is so surreal and leaves one wanting more insight into the characters lives like a junkie needs more drugs in their system.
adding red to green yields yellow; adding red to blue yields magenta; adding green to blue yields cyan; adding all three primary colors together yields white.I told you, you didn't listen.
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Frankenstein's Guide (Book 1, the LiteraTours Cozy Mystery Series)
59 parts Complete
59 parts
Complete
Jessica "Ike" Wordsworth can dive into books, but she isn't prepared for a monster - and a ruthless murderer killing her tourists.
Ike is fighting the aftermath of a nasty divorce that left her husband in custody of her homesitting business - and her beloved cats.
With nothing but a turquoise construction trailer to call her home, Ike invests her last quid and becomes partner in a tour company specialising in bespoke trips for book-lovers. When the guide hired to take on the first tour drops out at the last minute, Ike has to take over and steer her guests towards the cradle of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".
All to soon she realises there truly are monsters on the loose, one of them a ruthless killer who's targetting her tourists.
To unearth the truth, Ike will have to cooperate with her moronic partner, Gary Sands, 13th Baron of Nettlehole and founder of LiteraTours. When they don't succeed in stopping the killer, she realises she'll have to take the plunge and draw on some rather unusual skills her family has been hiding from the world . . .
"Frankenstein's Guide" is the first instalment in the "LiteraTours Cozy Mystery series".
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