@bookstodon My #review of #TheViolinConspiracy by #BrendanSlocumb has just gone live! Not quite a #mystery and more a #bildungsroman, but the latter works really well with the former; didn't guess who the culprit was until the moment the protagonist did.

Full review here: https://kamreadsandrecs.tumblr.com/post/721449074908381184/title-the-violin-conspiracy-author-brendan

So Network Effect by Martha Wells is essentially a #lovestory and #bildungsroman . And a rather charming one. Despite the spacey context, which I confess leaves me increasingly cold. #sf #literature #murderbot

@bodhipaksa

Following this up, it's #JosephConrad, #TheShadowLine.

The novel is almost entirely dialogue in direct speech, with very few descriptive or reflective passages. Here the young man digests the fact that his dream of having his own command has come true. The sentences combine abstract metaphysical elevation with the sensual concreteness in the description of the ship's body.

All these hopes will of course be entirely shattered, as they must.

A #modernist #Bildungsroman.

Anyone else climbing Mt. Email and discovering how spicy #Autocat was on 12/26 and 27?

#cataloging #bildungsroman #catacoders #CritCat #EmailListDrama

Changing your goals & methods & then discovering that all you've done is solve one of the hard problems you've always had, so that in a sense you haven't changed at all: very amusing & exciting & enjoyable, & one of the reasons to be a writer. Also scary because in the end, after a few self-revisions of that sort, you can't fail to detect your unconscious partner, #TheOtherWriterDownThere

#WIWH #WishIWasHere #Memoir #AntiMemoir #Bildungsroman

Changing your goals & methods & then discovering that all you've done is solve one of the hard problems you've always had, so that in a sense you haven't changed at all: very amusing & exciting & enjoyable, & one of the reasons to be a writer. Also scary because in the end, after a few self-revisions of that sort, you can't fail to detect your unconscious partner, #TheOtherWriterDownThere

#WIWH #WishIWasHere #Memoir #AntiMemoir #Bildungsroman

#GeorgeBataille - #StoryOfTheEye is a perverse #surreal & #psychosexual romance / #Bildungsroman of sorts & while VERY MUCH not for everyone it has a strange beauty that is unfathomable & disturbing.

Gioacchino Criaco. ‘L’Ultimo Drago d’Aspromonte’ https://www.articolo21.org/2021/01/gioacchino-criaco-lultimo-drago-daspromonte/ #GioacchinoCriaco #CorradoStajano #FrancescoMunzi #VincenzoFilosa #bildungsroman #RizzoliLizard #graphicnovel #Aspromonte #Rubbettino #Libridine #animenere