#DaphneDuMaurier is a fantastic writer.
It's not often you read a #ShortStory and really enjoy it and have it stuck in your head.
The Blue Lenses is just brilliant. It is silly yet touches on something more troubling. Yet, Maurier never really says things explicitly -- a bit like #Rebecca -- and the reader has to piece things together.
Her works can be quite cryptic and they leave you with questions.
The ending of Blue Lenses is brilliant. I wasn't quite sure where it was heading, but the ending doesn't disappoint.
But the ending is cryptic and it's one of those stories you have to re-read to pick up on the nuances you might have missed.
But I love how she uses an absurd occurrence to touch upon underlying themes. How the something strange actually turns out to be the subconsciousness at work, and turns out to be revealing more of reality.
It's very good.
#Books #Reading
Lydia Conwell
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