a review in Rain Taxi of Autobiography of a Book

A review of Autobiography of a Book appears in the new issue of Rain Taxi. 

Reviewer Mike Bove calls “Autobiography of a Book, an inventive, fun, and wildly philosophical reading experience.” 

Book asks a lot of questions “and gradually it becomes clear that Book itself, the protagonist and narrative voice, is asking because it really wants to know: What does it mean to exist, and how is life lived?”

Bove also takes note of the book’s design:

“Autobiography of a Book begins with bright white type on black pages that slowly lighten to gray, mirroring the darkness of non-existence from which Book gradually emerges. About halfway through, the pages are light enough to warrant a shift from white type to black. Appropriately enough, Book’s first works in black type are “I am alive.” From here the pages continue to lighten, and by the time the book concludes, they are fully white, signaling Book’s achievement of existence, total and complete.”

Read the rest at Rain Taxi.