Books by Simon Van Booy
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review 1: I would give this four stars after a good discussion about all the connections, fears of individual characters, etc. So much to this book, but the first read can be very confusing. By the end I really liked it, after it all connected together. Each chapter is a different year an...
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review 1: This was a really beautifully-written book, and a beautiful/tragic story. I did feel though that often it was more a collection of (sometimes, breathtakingly) beautifully-written sentences that were a bit tangential to the story, and perhaps the author could have integrated them ...
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review 1: …dreams are either unresolved conflicts or wish fulfilments.The only authentic memories find us - like letters addressed to someone we used to be.In my youth, all conflict was resolution—just a busier form of emptiness.Actually, years mean nothing. It’s what’s inside them.They wi...
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review 1: Writer I'd not heard of before. Independent publisher. Five long stories. Thought I'd better give it a fair chance. The writer is concerned with how things that happen in childhood are carried with us through the rest of our lives. Often they are weights that we have difficulty t...
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review 1: Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that ...