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susanstinsonHere's a lovely review of the book by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
charlottecooper. (To find it, hit the link, click on "books" under Culture, then click the cover of Venus of Chalk.) Charlotte writes a little about being nervous about reviewing a book by someone she knows, but it's an interesting thing, because the reason we know each other is through lj and links that our work has made. I love the way books can do that, create conversation and connections where they haven't previously existed. And it makes me so happy that she praised the story within a story structure -- for me, it's like a little love note to great fiction writers like Joseph Conrad to structure the book that way.
Felicia Luna Lemus sent me a copy of Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties, her lyrical and edgy novel set in Los Angeles (heyfattest! Check it out!). I'm so excited to read it.
charlottecooper. (To find it, hit the link, click on "books" under Culture, then click the cover of Venus of Chalk.) Charlotte writes a little about being nervous about reviewing a book by someone she knows, but it's an interesting thing, because the reason we know each other is through lj and links that our work has made. I love the way books can do that, create conversation and connections where they haven't previously existed. And it makes me so happy that she praised the story within a story structure -- for me, it's like a little love note to great fiction writers like Joseph Conrad to structure the book that way. Felicia Luna Lemus sent me a copy of Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties, her lyrical and edgy novel set in Los Angeles (hey
fattest! Check it out!). I'm so excited to read it.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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