Franny Billingsley
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- Fødselsdato
- 1954
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bopæl
- Chicago, Illinois, USA (Birth)
Highland Park, Illinois, USA
Denmark - Uddannelse
- Tufts University (1976)
Boston University (Law|1979) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Award (2003)
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- 2,338
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- #10,977
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- 3.9
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- ISBN
- 62
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- 3
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- 5
There's more mystery to Chime than I anticipated. Briony, our unreliable narrator, lives in a world of self-hate and metaphorical mask-wearing. But I could tell early on that her version of events was off in some way. You don't really put it all together until the end, and it's a pretty good payoff. So points for a nicely untangled plot.
And if you like to read creepy stuff around Halloween, this will definitely work for you (if you don't mind teenage romance mixed in). There's this dead hand thing that really freaked me out.
In the end, I can't say I loved Chime because I prefer more straightforward storytelling. While evocative and lyrical, Briony's voice also came across as stilted, which I found mildly annoying at times. Fans of the book will probably say it's stilted like Shakespeare is stilted (nobody really talks like that either, right?), and that's a good point. But on top of the highly embellished style, the text was also repetitive (again, like [a:Kathi Applet]) which tends to make me roll my eyes while I'm listening (maybe not if I'd read it instead of listening to the audiobook--but the narrator was good).… (mere)