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Another astonishing piece of work from Ms. Smith. Is there anything this writer can’t do? I have domestic duties and a rumbling stomach at present, so this review might be brief, and gushing. But here goes. I love Ali Smith. I love Ali Smith because she moves me, and being a man, I’m not supposed to......more

Ali Smith gets a lot of love from the reviewers (the real ones, not us hobbledehoys lurking under our Goodreads rock). She likes to be experimental. Or she does in this novel, anyway. Unfortunately "experimental" techniques provoke the train-spotter in me. Oh, I say to myself, there's some James Joy......more

The fall occurs at dawn. Albert Camus If I had not read MJ’s excellent review ([URL not allowed]), I would never have purchased this book as firstly, I had never heard of the author and secondly, this didn’t sound like my type of book at all. That’s the “problem” with Goodre......more

Second time (read) is the charm as they say. After having loved Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy and having chosen this specific novel for not one but two upcoming assignments, I thought it was better that I reread to both further my analysis and see if I can enjoy it more now that I have grasped Smith's......more

Perhaps the most interesting about this, Smith's second full-fledged novel, is how it was viewed as terribly avant-garde when it first came out, but now seems borderline mainstream. It's still a wild, trippy ride, but Smith's engaging wordplay and her unerring narrative pyrotechnics are perhaps more......more