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I fully admit to having skimmed through some of the poetic passages, but this is an impressive work all the same. I love how the past and present threads were woven together, and as a devotee to all things Victorian, this novel was irresistible.
Two stories unfolding over old letters and in archives and libraries is going to be a story for me. Both stories were interesting and fascinating and also gave a sense of the incredible competitiveness of academia. The only reason I'm not giving this book 5 stars is because there was just too much poetry for me. I know the main story is about two poets but I just didn't feel the need to read the full poems and was satisfied by the characters using small quotations to express how they connected w
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Defeated this day, 18 April 2012.
I was excited for this book. I'd heard good things, and I love epistolary novels---and epistolary novels with romance, and poets, and academics, all written in elegant prose!
Well, the prose is sometimes quite pretty, but this is really a tedious book. I frankly do not care about either of the main characters. They're boring, at best, and caricatures at worst---quite uncompelling. Neither love story is exactly compelling, either. Although the book is rife with de ...more
I was excited for this book. I'd heard good things, and I love epistolary novels---and epistolary novels with romance, and poets, and academics, all written in elegant prose!
Well, the prose is sometimes quite pretty, but this is really a tedious book. I frankly do not care about either of the main characters. They're boring, at best, and caricatures at worst---quite uncompelling. Neither love story is exactly compelling, either. Although the book is rife with de ...more
Jul 17, 2009
Jennifer Eklund
marked it as to-read
Aug 13, 2009
Erin (NY)
marked it as to-read
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Aug 20, 2009
Vesra (When She Reads)
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Mar 25, 2012
Cheryl Scaccio
marked it as to-read
Jan 23, 2019
superawesomekt
marked it as tbr-myshelf
May 27, 2019
Dianne
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EmJay
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Dec 31, 2019
Agatha Donkar Lund
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it was amazing
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