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About Miramuffin

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Lover of books and movies, specializing in speculative fiction, living in the arctic with human family and two tiny dogs

Miramuffin's Reviews:

Station Eleven, a book about the end and the continuation, about, life, art, and time.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

February 10, 2021 by Miramuffin Leave a Comment

To write about writing is a strange exercise. When we view stories, we usually view them, somewhat, as experiences, more than as texts. This adds a dynamic dimension, one that is difficult to capture when reviewing and critiquing literature. I talk from the point of my experience of the literature in these writings, but there is undeniable a connection, between the quality of language, of development of setting and character, and the use of the devices of writing, in how the experience of the reader […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Emily St. John Mandel

Miramuffin's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: Emily St. John Mandel ·
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