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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution – Bernard Bailyn (1967)

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

May 26, 2021 by vel veeter 1 Comment

This historical reading of the documents surrounding the creation of the Constitution, the thinking part of the American Revolution, and the eventual structure of the US government is an exhausting, if not fully exhaustive understanding of the variety of complexities of that period. It’s important to note that this book is a history of ideas, and as such, nothing happens, and is mostly about understanding how the thinking of the age turned into the revolutionary spirit, how that spirit vastly differs from person to person […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Bernard Bailyn

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:236 · Genres: History · Tags: Bernard Bailyn ·
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How to Murder Your Life – Cat Marnell (2017)

How to Murder your Life by Cat Marnell

May 25, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I mean this book is just great. I don’t always like memoirs that much in part because for one, the vast bulk of them are a little formulaic or written because of fame. Even well-written ones often get a little committeed to death because of the more or less puritanical impulses in the publishing industry. I don’t know much about Cat Marnell (or didn’t. I think I know a few things now), but she was big for a while in certain crowds. This memoir begins […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Cat marnell

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:235 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Cat marnell ·
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How Racism Takes Place – George Lipstiz (2011)

How Racism Takes Place by George Lipsitz

May 25, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Some other reviews make the claim that this is the book that everyone should read if they care about anti-racism. And I think this is about half-true. More than anything, those people need to read a lot of George Lipsitz and especially his book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness because that’s the book that really explains in detail what you need to know about how this country created the very structures of society through whiteness. This book relies on that understanding to explore its question. […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: George Lipsitz

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:234 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: George Lipsitz ·
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Mixed Bag Catch-Up (Books I listened to while painting the house)

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

All you Zombies by Robert A Heinlein

The Great Crash by John Kenneth Galbraith

Scary Stories Collection by Alvin Schwarz

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

Somebody's Darling by Larry McMurty

May 25, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Terminal Boredom – 4/5 Stars A small collection of stories from the science fiction writer Izumi Suzuki. It’s important to note that these stories are selected from a decades long career. This seems to be a first foray into a larger translation project of more of Suzuki’s writing, especially her novels. The stories are mostly subtle, intimate explorations of stories that are running through various science fiction tropes and ideas. These are ideas that are usually fully established in the story before we begin, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Alvin Schwarz, haruki murakami, Izumi Suzuki, John Kenneth Galbraith, Larry McMurty, robert a heinlein

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:233 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Alvin Schwarz, haruki murakami, Izumi Suzuki, John Kenneth Galbraith, Larry McMurty, robert a heinlein ·
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Horizon (2009) and Knife Children (2019) by Lois McMaster Bujold

Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold

Knife Children by Lois McMaster Bujold

May 20, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I put this one off for awhile (I originally planned to read all four of these books together and without stopping). There’s something a little exhausting on taking on a series of novels, fantasy of otherwise, when they’re designed to be read as one long narrative as opposed to four distinct entries. But I am glad I waited so I could catch my breath, and it turns out that this was both the best of the four books, but also a satisfying ending. What’s remarkable […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: lois mcmaster bujold

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:227 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: lois mcmaster bujold ·
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Mixed Bag Catch Up

Samarkand by Amin Maalouf

Shiloh by Shelby Foote

Blind Willow Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders

Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl

May 20, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Samarkand – 4/5 Stars This book immediately wonder how many novels have Omar Khayyam as a major or main characters. So in this way, being shown in careful detail and with loving care how and why Omar Khayyam is such an important person, cultural touchstone, and inspiration to such a huge part of the world is itself a gift that this novel offers. In addition to this, the sense of adventure in this novel that is created in the opening sections, and then carried over […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Amin Maalouf, George Saunders, haruki murakami, Michael Crichton, Ruth Reichl, Shelby Foote

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:225 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Amin Maalouf, George Saunders, haruki murakami, Michael Crichton, Ruth Reichl, Shelby Foote ·
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