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A review by waywardfancy
Formaldehyde by Jane Rawson
4.0
Dear Jane - firstly, this was on my "Currently reading" shelf for ages but that doesn't mean I took ages reading it - I kept lending it to other people! FINALLY I GOT TO READ IT!!!!
Jane Rawson's writing makes me miss my tram stop, makes me laugh out loud (guffaw even) and in the next paragraph will make my heart feel grazed with astute hurt and then soothed with tender insights. I know - that is no mean feat. She can somehow straddle emotion and mind freaking plots without being pretentious or over sentimental.
I can't recommend ANYTHING Jane Rawson writes highly enough. I find her concepts just delightful and her characters and internal emotion completely engrossing....and then there are laughs. In comparison, her bright contortionist mind reminds me of Atwood. Our own contemporary Australian sort of Atwood.
Best of all, Rawson invents a future that despite freaky slip stream brain-fryingly strange happenings, is underpinned with characters are hopelessly flawed and definitively human. It makes everything else in the narrative accessible.
What a brilliant, original, mind blowing, jam packed, delightful and utterly readable novella.
Jane Rawson's writing makes me miss my tram stop, makes me laugh out loud (guffaw even) and in the next paragraph will make my heart feel grazed with astute hurt and then soothed with tender insights. I know - that is no mean feat. She can somehow straddle emotion and mind freaking plots without being pretentious or over sentimental.
I can't recommend ANYTHING Jane Rawson writes highly enough. I find her concepts just delightful and her characters and internal emotion completely engrossing....and then there are laughs. In comparison, her bright contortionist mind reminds me of Atwood. Our own contemporary Australian sort of Atwood.
Best of all, Rawson invents a future that despite freaky slip stream brain-fryingly strange happenings, is underpinned with characters are hopelessly flawed and definitively human. It makes everything else in the narrative accessible.
What a brilliant, original, mind blowing, jam packed, delightful and utterly readable novella.