Genre: magical realism. \u2b50\ufe0fStars from Goodreads: 3.9.\u00a0\u2b50\ufe0fStars from me: 5.<\/p>\n
Sometimes the word \u201ca book\u201d does not describe a creation well enough. All books are different but some books are just more than books. Apart from telling you a story, they bring a whole new world along with them. I don\u2019t mean a world like the one with Tolkien\u2019s hobbits, lands and languages. It doesn\u2019t have to be that gigantic. But when you read it you start being aware of something that hasn\u2019t been there before.<\/p>\n
Everything Under<\/a><\/em> is this kind of book. In no way is it just another story. In fact, the story itself is quite transparent. You can easily guess what\u2019s going on if you read carefully (or if you google the book and get a major spoiler in the first lines of the description. Don\u2019t google the book!)<\/p>\n Everything Under<\/em> is a story about a river, a mother, a daughter. It has fantasies that merge into lives and become a reality.<\/p>\n The main treasure of the book is its language. It\u2019s been a lifetime since I saw something so beautifully, intricately written. You can take a sentence and watch it as a separate piece of art. I read some of the phrases aloud several times just to see how beautifully they unfold.<\/p>\n If there were prizes for the best magic performed with words Daisy Johnson would be the winner. She doesn\u2019t just give you descriptions. She lays out words that you don\u2019t expect to see but then you watch them grow into a perfect construction conveying exactly what the author meant. When it\u2019s getting late and the characters are near the river, the author doesn\u2019t just say \u201cit was getting dark<\/em>\u201d. She says: \u201cThe water had lost its colour<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n The water had lost its colour\u2026 Precise and perfect.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve marked a lot of phrases in the book. I go through them like through a gallery of beautiful paintings. There\u2019s a whole collection now taken from one short book.<\/p>\n Everything Under<\/a><\/em> will not be beautiful for everybody. You\u2019ll have to savour the lines to see what they mean and how they unravel. Also, some moments in the book will make you cringe, although even my prude self shut up this time to let me enjoy the book. But if you like watching the beauty of the words put perfectly together, and you are looking for something special for your literary senses this book is for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes the word \u201ca book\u201d does not describe a creation well enough. All books are different but some books are more than books. Apart from telling you a story, they bring a whole new world along with them. A review of a book that tells a magical story about a river, a mother and a daughter. Continue reading Everything Under by Daisy Johnson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[49,98,123,152,215,216,245,246,329,469,500,526],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/screen-shot-2018-08-20-at-13-46-11-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}