bookception
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bookception (plural bookceptions)
- (slang) A work of fiction (especially a novel) featuring a frame story or metanarrative structure.
- 2012 September 13, Nathan Fisher, “Lazy writing leads to forgettable 'Words'”, in The Pioneer, Whitman College, page 4:
- “The Words” offers too many “stories,” and this “bookception” fails to offer a seamless serious drama.
- 2012 September 20, Rob Marvin, “Unimaginative plot wastes talented cast on dull, plodding story”, in The Daily Orange, Syracuse University, page 15:
- This wishy-washy literary thriller is masquerading as a “book-ception” of sorts, with incessant narration and a heavy-handed score just as cliched as its plot.
- 2016 August 1, Katie Ward Beim-Eche, “'Outrun the Moon' features a stellar YA heroine set in historic Chinatown”, in Christian Science Monitor:
- After I finished “Outrun the Moon,” it took me two weeks to realize the extent of Lee’s book-ception. In a twist on par with Möbius or Escher, “The Book for Business-Minded Women” describes not only Mrs. Lowry’s book, but Lee’s as well.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bookception.