overall 3 votes: 
editor rating: 
An Interactive/Cross-media Novel Can you help Arie discover happiness by Labor Day? Will she find adventure? Will she find romance? Will she find the smiles her life has been missing? Arie has a Greyhound Discover Pass and an entire summer to explore the country. She’s asking her readers to play spin the compass and point her toward the places . . .
overall 5 votes:
editor average:
This novel describes an epic journey from Embankment station, to the Elephant and Castle. There are seven carriages on a Bakerloo Line train, each with 36 seats. A train in which every passenger has a seat will carry 252 people. With the driver, that makes 253. . . .
Let me start off by saying that 253 is most definitely not going to be for everyone. Its greatest appeal is characterization. There isn’t much of a plot, and what plot there is is decidedly non-linear. Readers looking for continuous action, a central plot, a main character, or really, anything resembling a traditional story, will probably feel a bit lost.
Though this work isn’t my cup of tea, it’s still getting four stars from me—for reasons I’ll detail in a moment. First, the basics:
253 is more of a listing than a story, providing very brief snapshots of the 252 passengers of the Bakerloo Line train—plus one driver. The author grants [more . . .]