Piranesi

If The Magician's Nephew and Flowers for Algernon had a baby, it would be this book. Flowers for the Magician's Piranesi. I loved that we were reading through Piranesi/Matthew's journal and could see the stark difference between his two consciousnesses. I wish there was more insight into the birth of Piranesi. Other than the changing of the way he labeled his journals, there wasn't any showing of the transitioning. I also want to know if Ketterley would show up frequently in the beginning and also how was it that a man of 30 was unable to overtake a man in his late 50's? He certainly seemed angry enough to try from the excerpts Piranesi found.
I really liked how the author brought about the awareness of the real names of the characters and situations that led them to be in the House. I also liked that in the end he didn't align himself with Matthew or Piranesi completely and stayed in the middle with his moderate amount of madness. I'm sure this correlates to him continuing to visit the House after he got out.
My favorite part of this book is how throughout the story, Piranesi refers to James Ritter as being poor when mentioning him. He had pity for him from the story he heard from the Prophet. Not because of his madness, but because he was lost from the House. I also really loved that he became attached to specific statues and there wasn't any rhyme or reason why they resonated with him.