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Originally Posted by montsnmags
Incidentally, the pbook (no ebook available) was a small book of short stories called how a moth becomes a boat (<---linky), by Josephine Rowe. Less than one hundred pages long, and each story only lasting a couple of pages or so, it's a book you can just pick up, read a story, and put down. But you'll probably pick it up again later and happily read the same story. Each story feels like a novel-conflated-from-a-moment-and-then-condensed-into-a-very-short-story. Each words feels precisely chosen; as if each sentence took a day or more to write; as if each two-page story was the work of a hundreds of hours. They're condensed from large seams of text into perfectly faceted diamonds. They're very affecting emotionally. I'm loving it, as you can probably gather. |
Wow, that is some hyper confidential secret book, how did you find it? It's not on Librarything or on amazon.com.