Tag: A.S. Byatt

• Reading Challenge #52: A Book Based on Mythology

  March 3, 2017

  Reading Challenge, reading challenge 2017

  A.S. Byatt, fantasy, fiction, literary fiction, myth adaptation, mythology, Norse myth, Popsugar reading challenge, Ragnarok, reading challenge, reading challenge 2017

  Title: Ragnarok Author: A.S. Byatt How it fulfills the challenge: This book is an adaptation of the Norse end of the world myth (Ragnarok) Genre: Fiction (maybe could be considered fantasy? Literary Fantasy…) Quick Description: A detailed and almost poetic interpretation of a Norse myth with amazing imagery and a complex look at good and evil, power and…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #67: Possession by A.S. Byatt

  December 30, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  A.S. Byatt, British authors, fiction, long fiction, Possession, reading challenge, women writers

  A.S. Byatt is a master. This book is pretty amazing, as Byatt has to create not only her protagonists, their world, and their quest, but also two literary figures and great portions or excerpts of their works. It’s quite a feat. This is a book that takes a great deal of effort and time, but…