Begona Fernandez's Reviews > If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

If you want a story. One with a beginning, a middle and an end. If you want a coherent story that makes sense and is realistic don't go for this book. It will drive you nuts. If on the other hand you want to suspend belief and go to a different dimenssion and have a play, this is it.

I liked it. It's purposely broken plot, mad advantures and the 2nd person narrative has been used brilliantly to parody some novels and to make you think about the process of reading and writting. Even though after a few stories that began and dindn't end I did think: I GET IT. MOVE ON.

It is a book about readers: the relationship of the reader with the book: and about writters, and the process of Writting

I loved some sections of the novel, like when the Reader goes to the bookstore, the girl watched reading by Flannery and the section on the man that was nervous about phones.

However the end, to me felt a bit rushed. The reader needs to know the endings of the several stories that he has started. FINE. Someone, not the Other Reader, that oddly is missing from the quest to the library, says all stories end in death or marriage. And voila, marriage it is. Hmm