Oof, this one is trying to do so much, and none of it particularly well. Jumps in time in a jarring, nonsensical way. Incessant use of short sections that clearly are supposed to land with emotion, but for me just left me skipping ahead to see if anything good was coming before the next dramatic pause. Reads more like a film treatment than a novel.
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rustybroadsword reviewed Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Review of 'Frankissstein' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
Oof, this one is trying to do so much, and none of it particularly well. Jumps in time in a jarring, nonsensical way. Incessant use of short sections that clearly are supposed to land with emotion, but for me just left me skipping ahead to see if anything good was coming before the next dramatic pause. Reads more like a film treatment than a novel.
rustybroadsword rated We Have Always Lived in the Castle: 5 stars
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a 1962 mystery novel by American author Shirley Jackson. It was Jackson's …
rustybroadsword rated Eileen: 4 stars
Ottessa Moshfegh: Eileen (2023, Penguin Random House)
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
"A lonely young woman working in a boys' prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very …
rustybroadsword rated The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith: 5 stars
rustybroadsword reviewed The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey (; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia, Attic Greek: [o.dýs.sej.ja]) is one of two major ancient …
Review of 'The Odyssey' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
Stunning translation. Have read it twice already this year.
rustybroadsword rated The song of Achilles: 5 stars
The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
This is the story of the seige of Troy from the perspective of Achilles best-friend Patroclus. Although Patroclus is outcast …
rustybroadsword rated The Silence of the Girls: 2 stars
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
"From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's …
rustybroadsword rated The Iliad: 5 stars
The Iliad by Emily Wilson, Homer
The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time.
When Emily Wilson’s …
rustybroadsword rated If on a Winter's Night a Traveller: 5 stars
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the …
rustybroadsword reviewed Keep the aspidistra flying by George Orwell (Penguin classics)
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good …
Review of 'Keep the aspidistra flying' on 'Storygraph'
I just couldn’t stand it any more after the dipshits couldn’t be bothered to pack a lunch for their giant hike in the country.
I just couldn’t stand it any more after the dipshits couldn’t be bothered to pack a lunch for their giant hike in the country.
rustybroadsword wants to read Garments against women by Anne Boyer (The new series -- #67)
Garments against women by Anne Boyer, Anne Boyer (The new series -- #67)
rustybroadsword reviewed Emma by ICON Reference
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued …
Review of 'Emma' on 'Storygraph'
meh, it's verrrrryyyy boring in Swedish
meh, it's verrrrryyyy boring in Swedish
rustybroadsword rated Invisible Cities: 5 stars
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but …
rustybroadsword rated Ulysses.: 5 stars
Ulysses. by Richard Ellmann (Penguin modern classics 3000)
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal …