this may be the first book I have ever come to love as a direct result of a NY Times Book Review Archives - Reading the End https://readingtheend.com/tag/this-may-be-the-first-book-i-have-ever-come-to-love-as-a-direct-result-of-a-ny-times-book-review/ before I read the middle Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:32:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://readingtheend.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-reading-the-end-with-words-2-32x32.jpg this may be the first book I have ever come to love as a direct result of a NY Times Book Review Archives - Reading the End https://readingtheend.com/tag/this-may-be-the-first-book-i-have-ever-come-to-love-as-a-direct-result-of-a-ny-times-book-review/ 32 32 53371782 My day yesterday https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/19/my-day-yesterday/ https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/19/my-day-yesterday/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:32:08 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2178 Jenny: If fiction is going to be meta, it should be meta exactly like The Unwritten.  I HAVE DECREED IT SO. Universe: Oh yeah? NY Times: Zachary Mason’s The Lost Books of the Odyssey is metafiction and sometimes wonderful.  Read an excerpt. Jenny: I am unmoved by this excerpt. Slate and WSJ: Zachary Mason’s The Lost Books of the Odyssey is meta-licious.  We love it. Jenny: Whatever.  I will believe it when I see it. The Lost Books of the Odyssey: WIN WIN WIN. True story.

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]]> Jenny: If fiction is going to be meta, it should be meta exactly like The Unwritten.  I HAVE DECREED IT SO.
Universe: Oh yeah?
NY Times: Zachary Mason’s The Lost Books of the Odyssey is metafiction and sometimes wonderful.  Read an excerpt.
Jenny: I am unmoved by this excerpt.
Slate and WSJ: Zachary Mason’s The Lost Books of the Odyssey is meta-licious.  We love it.
Jenny: Whatever.  I will believe it when I see it.
The Lost Books of the Odyssey: WIN WIN WIN.

True story.

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