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A story about stories

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

March 3, 2021 by kimberleybear Leave a Comment

[read as an ebook from my local library] If you read my little snarky Cannonball Read bio, you’ll see in addition to various other quirks and personal failings an “acknowledged tendency to fall for fictional characters.” This is not as strictly a joke as it ought to be — I have always tended (still do) to form rather strong attachments to figments of someone else’s imagination. I suppose you could call it a sort of parasocial relationship with someone who is maybe even less real […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: h.g. parry

kimberleybear's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: h.g. parry ·
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It turns out that sometimes having a background in English literature pays off

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

November 22, 2020 by Malin 3 Comments

Official book description: For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can’t quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob – a young lawyer with an utterly normal life – hopes that this strange family secret will disappear with disuse, and he will be discharged from his duty of protecting Charley and the real world from each other.   But then, literary characters start causing trouble in their city, making threats about destroying […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr12, Charles Dickens, classical literature, h.g. parry, Malin, meta fiction, New Zealand, the unlikely escape of uriah heep

Malin's CBR12 Review No:78 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #fantasy, cbr12, Charles Dickens, classical literature, h.g. parry, Malin, meta fiction, New Zealand, the unlikely escape of uriah heep ·
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Somehow this all seems familiar

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

March 7, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I don’t remember how I heard about The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, but I saw it on a library shelf not long after I heard about it, so of course I had to check it out (pun intended). The story concentrates on two brothers, Rob the older from whose perspective the story comes, and Charley the younger, genius of the sort who finished a PhD and publishes an academic book on Dickens at the age of nineteen. There is the usual kind of brotherly […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Books, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, dorian gray, h.g. parry, the unlikely escape of uriah heep, Victorian

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Books, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, dorian gray, h.g. parry, the unlikely escape of uriah heep, Victorian ·
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