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“For when it comes to strength and goodness and brilliance and gentleness and grandeur of spirit so vast that it takes one’s breath away, beauty is nothing, beauty is a mote of a mountain, beauty is a mere straw alight beside a barn on fire.”

Matrix by Lauren Groff

December 31, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

I do, on occasion, voluntarily read lit-fic, even dare I say, get excited about it! And that is usually when there is some sort of weird hook to the premise. Here, it’s nuns. I’ve had a weird thing with nuns ever since I watched The Trouble With Angels as a child, and I can’t explain it. I think they are funny and interesting and weird, and some of them were completely demented (my mom had a nun teacher in the early 1960s who used to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: historical fiction, lauren groff, LGBTQIA, lit-fic, literary fiction, Matrix, narfna, nuns

narfna's CBR14 Review No:255 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: historical fiction, lauren groff, LGBTQIA, lit-fic, literary fiction, Matrix, narfna, nuns ·
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Medieval Mean Girls

Matrix by Lauren Groff

January 28, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

I both do and do not understand how Matrix could possibly have made it onto “Best Books” lists for 2021. I hated the narrative style of first person present combined with free indirect discourse with a touch of narrative omniscience. I do not enjoy first person present narration in the first place and the ambiguity and unbalance between knowing what Marie thinks and feels, but also displaying knowledge of things Marie does not know (or at least not yet) just did not work for me. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: historical fiction, lauren groff, Marie d'France, Marie de France, Matrix, medieval england, medieval France, medieval women, mysticism

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: historical fiction, lauren groff, Marie d'France, Marie de France, Matrix, medieval england, medieval France, medieval women, mysticism ·
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