Piranesi Review

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke “Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.” – Piranesi Overview: So few books are suffused with such magic and whimsy from the jump. I typically don’t go into books, especially popular ones, without at least some concept of what they are / what they’re about. I went into Piranesi completely blind and I am so glad I did. I picked it up wanting a break from thousand-page fantasy sloughs

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Piranesi Review

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke “Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.” – Piranesi Overview: So few books are suffused with such magic and whimsy from the jump. I typically don’t go into books, especially popular ones, without at least some concept of what they are / what they’re about. I went into Piranesi completely blind and I am so glad I did. I picked it up wanting a break from thousand-page fantasy sloughs

Aug 103 min read

Introduction - The Four Pillars

About Me Hello and welcome to Aidan Burns Books. I am Aidan Burns and I like books, I don’t burn them, (common misconception). I am actually ardently against the burning of books in any situations that don’t include the sheer necessity for survival. If you’re freezing to death and all you have for the base of a fire are the dry, tattooed carcasses of trees long dead—go for it. The Goal My goal here is to do exactly what art was meant for—objectification. To anyone who has e

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ABOUT AIDAN

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a writer. To me… being a writer was better than being president of the United States. Even before I had written my first story or conceived my first character, I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was there that I knew I belonged. To me, it meant being somebody… in a world where it is so easy to feel like nobody. Writers weren’t like anybody else. They did whatever they wanted. They broke laws of physics and called it “magic.” They taught us that monsters and evil tyrants, deplorable as they may all be, can be defeated. That there is good in this world and that it’s worth fighting for.

So here is my attempt to be somebody. To remind others that there is yet good in this world, fictional though my stories may be.

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