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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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Ebook– Piranesi



Ebook–  Piranesi


Author: Susanna Clarke

Score: 5/10

Year: 2020

Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN : note found

ASIN : B07YX1S553 

Pages : 246

Language: English


Potential that I felt wasted. I read this book as part of LucieBulle's bookclub monthly community read.


I liked certain aspects:

* already, that the journey to this world was not an "astral" or magical journey, as it seemed to be at the start. I was a little afraid of the end of the novel with the "manisfestation".

*The gradual discovery of the key points of each character's past, and the main one saved by a woman and it does not end in a transfer romance

*The question of identity that comes with experiences and memories, and acceptance from family/friends that he must have had a seizure, and everyone accepts that he needs to go to therapy


Neutral:

* Its scientific methodology is interesting, although repetitive (the statements in each entry are long)


However :

* a lot of repetition of words and above all, long sentences.

*Narrative style not rich enough for my personal tastes.

* Lack of answers concerning the sizes of statues and of this universe that Piranesi lived in... did he measure correctly as it would seem from his writings? or are all sizes exaggerated by the same effect of forgetfulness / on the verge of losing ones bearings?

* By what were these caused? I would have liked, for example, that his executioner had given him drugs or something, which would explain the notions of altered space and time because, at the end, we learn that he must have been a prisoner somewhere near a isolated beach or island; however, to my knowledge, no real place would correspond with Piranesi's measurements...


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