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Am I Too Dumb for this Book?

Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

July 21, 2022 by Ale Leave a Comment

Crystalclear listened to the audio version of Mr. Fox and wasn’t sure how she felt about it, but it’s speculative-leaning and maybe reading the actual book would be a different experience, so she suggested it to me. While I do think it was better to read it than to listen to it (Oyeyemi does a lot with fonts, blank space, and paragraph structures that make way more sense looking at it than listening to it), I also am not totally sure how I felt about Mr. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, desire, Helen Oyeyemi, mindgames, Minds, non linear stories, Writers, writing about writing

Ale's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, desire, Helen Oyeyemi, mindgames, Minds, non linear stories, Writers, writing about writing ·
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