{"id":18852,"date":"2021-12-05T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=18852"},"modified":"2024-01-21T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T15:31:01","slug":"outcrossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/18852","title":{"rendered":"Outcrossing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outcrossing<\/a> (2018) Celia Lake (Mysterious Charm)<\/p>\n

\"Outcrossing\"<\/a>Set in alternate England in 1922.<\/p>\n

Rufus returned from The Great War unscathed, to a village that doesn’t understand why he returned when their sons and brothers and fathers didn’t.<\/p>\n

(T)hey found him even more suspicious and – just wrong, one of the wives had called him. \u201cNothing natural about a man coming out of the war, not a scratch on him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ferry has no interest in the men her parents are selecting for her to marry, so she makes a different choice.<\/p>\n

Ferry had not meant to be a governess, after all, but it was a suitable sort of occupation for a young woman from a good family who was refusing to get married.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story is interesting, the writing however, is aggravating and repeatedly threw me out of the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot one one I\u2019m much good at.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Much of the story feels like it was dictated, rather than written, and then they didn’t go back to tighten up the prose so it would make sense to a reader.<\/p>\n

\u201cMrs Wain, I do – I know it\u2019s not at all proper, but the man I was speaking to. So I know how to avoid him, or people like him, what should I know?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cSee this? It\u2019s got that line of rose pink, on the underside of the orchid, that\u2019s just about right, lots of pictures don\u2019t. And this, here. About the ponies. This is quite a good description of the breeding lines, much more detail than some. I don\u2019t know the all of it, but it\u2019s promising.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In speech, our pauses and intonation help the listener fill in the gaps and pauses and stutters and false starts. Reading conversation may be accurate, but it’s not easy, and I don’t find it any fun.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Celia Lake
\nRating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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