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Title	:	Girl Reading
Author	:	Katie Ward
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 340 pages
Published	:	January 5th 2012 by Virago Press Ltd (first published May 1st 2011)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Short Stories. Writing. Books About Books. Art

Girl Reading

Katie Ward

Paperback | Pages: 340 pages

Rating: 3.54 | 2426 Users | 289 Reviews

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This was an excellent book and you might wonder why I haven't given it five stars. Many people have given it five stars and they are right. I, however, am mean and stingy with my stars. Girl Reading is Katie Ward's first book, and I am quite certain that she will give me some five star material soon. She is probably writing something five-staresque as we speak.

Girl Reading is really a collection of short stories posing as a novel. I think I can see a trend there - does it mean that publishers are finally starting to embrace short stories, the eternal bastard child of the publishing world?

I hope so.

Katie Ward based her stories around different work of arts depicting women reading. And we're talking a journey from 14th century to the year 2060. It is often a problem with short story anthologies that while reading you are abruptly taken out of one story and thrown into another one. Surprisingly, the transition in 'Girl Reading' is astonishingly seamless, and that despite different characters, times and locations. This was what I found most impressive about the book.

The stories are simply beautiful. Katie Ward can knock out most other debut writers out there in the first round and her imagination is vivid enough for her to take on David Mitchell. She writes about paintings which show women reading or writing and it gets very clever and metaphysical.

In the last story all the stories come together and make sense (or don't at all, depending on how smart you are).

My only tiny complaint (you know I had to) is that the book doesn't use inverted commas for dialogues. I honestly and truly do not understand this new fashion. It seems to me as if they are trying to make the book more impenetrable and confusing to create the impression it is more 'literary'. Really unnecessary, this book is probably too clever for its own good as it is.

Anyway, note her name down, Katie Ward is my new darling.

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ISBN:	1844086879 (ISBN13: 9781844086870)
Edition Language:	English

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While flicking through the opening pages of this in my local library I was surprised to note that the first chapter was sat in the city of Sienna, during the early Renaissance, with a particular focus on the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala. One of the oldest examples of a purpose-built hospital in the world, I visited this exact place on holiday just under a year ago. Not only that but there was a mention of the hospital oratory on the lower floors, the experience of which I wrote about last

I could write a long review of this, and maybe I will..okay, maybe I'm writing it now.I liked the idea for this book, stories about paintings and photos of women reading, I wish I had thought of it ad written it, though maybe I have thought of a different way to think about it :).The way it was written for the most part wasn't my style nor what I would have thought of when I saw the pictures,but just for the concept, this is one of my favorite books.I wish the book had illustrations of the

This was a little more miss than hit for me but that isn't to say I didn't enjoy reading it! Loved the fact that it was short stories set over different time periods in history and featuring a common thread, but for me some of these stories were more captivating than others and at times I lost my love for the stories and my mind kept wandering!It was beautifully written, and some of the characters and settings featured were extremely interesting and fascinating but overall I just didn't get the

Excellent read! Will read this again!

I found it really difficult to decide on the appropriate rating for this book, swerving anywhere between three and five stars. When I first heard about it - seven linked stories on the subject of pieces of art showing a girl reading - I was torn between two conflicting thoughts: "wow, sounds like a great and unusual concept," and "sounds a bit overly pretentious, the author must be going all out to get her Booker Prize nomination." Having read it, I think that both of these thoughts are true to

In Girl Reading, a debut novel, Katie Ward paints seven portraits of girls readingtheir lives, their conflicts, their passions, their griefs. The authors prose is rich, her syntax spare, exact, sometimes provocative, often surprising, usually delightful.From the start we are caught up in the characters, the stories of young women who read. We watch with them. We weep with them. We wonder, what comes next. In short, most of the time we cant turn the page fast enough, except for those passages we

I loved the premise of this book. Fictional tales weaved from looking at pieces of art and imagining the circumstances surrounding its creation. Unfortunately, it took me a while to warm to the author's style. Her writing is quite pretentious, foregoing speech marks and other basic grammar in what appears to be a warped attempt to make the book more literary. I could never warm to this style, however I did enjoy the last few stories much more than the previous ones. This is surprising for me, as