Citations:bookception

Noun: "(slang) a work of fiction (especially a novel) featuring a story-within-a-story or metanarrative structure"

 * 2012, Nathan Fisher, "Lazy writing leads to forgettable 'Words'", The Pioneer (Whitman College), 13 September 2012, page 4:
 * “The Words” offers too many “stories,” and this “bookception” fails to offer a seamless serious drama.
 * 2012, Rachel Stuart, "When words fail", Indiana Daily Student (Indiana University), 13 September 2012, page 8:
 * The old man who wrote and lost the stories eventually confronts Jansen, forcing him to face his plagiarism. Cue “bookception” number three as we learn of the complicated love story behind those words.
 * 2012, Rob Marvin, "Unimaginative plot wastes talented cast on dull, plodding story", The Daily Orange (Syracuse University), 20 September 2012, 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, Katie Ward Beim-Eche, "'Outrun the Moon' features a stellar YA heroine set in historic Chinatown", Christian Science Monitor, 1 August 2016:
 * 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.
 * 2017, Amanda L. Bailey, "Metaphors of Reading: Cognition and Embodiment in Contemporary Metafifiction", dissertation submitted to West Virginia University, page 211:
 * Instead the project was something of both worlds—a hyper-interactive reading experience which many fans are fond of calling “book-ception” (referring to the Christopher Nolan film, Inception): a book inside a book, with layers of readers/writers overlaid on other readers/writers, and with no clear indication of where the world of the book ends and the “real” world begins.

Noun: "(slang) a book about books, literature, writers, etc."

 * 2019, Cassie Haywood & Angela Young, "Book Club", Grand Designs Australia, Issue 9.1 (2019), page 25:
 * Each page celebrates books and the style they bring into a home through a book itself, which just adds to the “book-ception” fun.