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Book Review: Charles Baxter’s The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

Book Review: Charles Baxter’s The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter’s The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the secreted. Baxter explains how fiction writers create those visible and invisible details, how what is displayed evokes what is not displayed.

Posted July 23, 2013 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: David Weber’s Worlds of Weber: Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington and Other Stories

Book Review: David Weber’s Worlds of Weber: Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington and Other Stories

I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Worlds of Weber: Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington and Other Storiesby David WeberIt is part of the Ranks of Bronze, 1632, , , , , , , , , Honorverse, Ring of Fire, Honor Harrington #0.5 series and is a historical fiction, military science fiction in Hardcover edition on September 30, 2008 and has 600 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books in this series include [books_series] Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Mission of Honor, Insurrection, Worlds of Honor, Empire from the Ashes, Changer of Worlds, Torch of Freedom, Hell’s Gate, Hell Hath No Fury, In Fire Forged, In Fury Born, Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, Mission of Honor, By Heresies Distressed, A Rising Thunder, A Mighty Fortress, How Firm a Foundation, Fire Season, Midst Toil and Tribulation, Shadow of Freedom, House of Steel, Beginnings, Like a Mighty Army, Cauldron of Ghosts, Treecat Wars, A Call to Duty, Hell’s Foundations Quiver, At the Sign of Triumph, A Call to Vengeance, Uncompromising Honor, […]

Posted July 15, 2013 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments