Meghan B. (megmil) reviewed on 5/31/2007 + 2 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

I was annoyed to realize I'd seen the movie for this book when I was about 30 pages in (movies based on books should make a bigger deal about the books so people can read them before seeing the movie!). BUT, I'm glad I kept reading. This is an extraordinarily literary book, and I'd love to read it again just to look up all the references I missed and follow the different threads more closely. It's also a well-drawn set of stories, about two English lit PhDs in the 1980s who discover letters between two Victorian poets, and it made me wish the poets were real so I could read more of their work than just the few snippets included in the novel.

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