Special Topics in Calamity Physics

by Marisha Pessl | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 067003777x Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingApoloniaXwing of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany on 5/25/2012
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Journal Entry 1 by wingApoloniaXwing from Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany on Friday, May 25, 2012
After 10 years of traveling with her father, a perennial (and pedantic) visiting lecturer at various, obscure institutions of higher learning, Blue Van Meer finally settles in as a senior at the St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina. There she is bemused to find herself part of a charmed circle of popular kids called the Bluebloods and the protege of the mysterious film-studies teacher, Hannah Schneider. When a friend of Hannah's dies at a party the kids have crashed, this extravagantly arch and self-conscious coming-of-age novel turns into a murder mystery that--although never as Hitchcockian as its publisher claims--is, nevertheless, almost compelling enough to warrant its excessive length. Intriguingly structured as a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class, Pessl's first novel is filled with references to invented books--and to some real ones, too, including several by Nabokov. Overkill? You bet. But, as a result, the novel is generating a great deal of buzz that will excite the curiosity of readers who enjoy postmodern excesses and indulgences of this sort. (Booklist)

Journal Entry 2 by wingApoloniaXwing at Bremen, Bremen Germany on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (6/27/2012 UTC) at Bremen, Bremen Germany

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Travelling along with some labels...
Hope it meets your taste.

Journal Entry 3 by Blue_berry at Croydon, Greater London United Kingdom on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Thank you ApoloniaX! Caught with some labels. Looking forward to reading this!

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