Alex Rose (1)

A fabulous literary wunderkammer, it’s my favourite book of the year so far. I love the internet, following a recommendation for a different book I saw this and was instantly intrigued.

Described as a library of tangents, you are guided (in arresting 2nd person) through a variety of themes such as perception, language and music. Fact increasingly blends with fiction until it’s hard to know where the truth lies. I loved the description of extinct microbes such as the virus attracted by show more fear or the land where numbers have no meaning. The best thing is it made me wish things were true (I will never check if can write secret messages in an egg). I could expand more on the ideas but think it is best left for discovery! The book is illustrated throughout with beautiful pictures of old books and manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne gospels to ancient cryptographic wheels. This is its downside as to me it should be much larger than its small paperback size, but then I have a weakness for these things. show less

i am assuming all of this happened.