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Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford was available.

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

Son of Rosemary by Ira Levin

October 23, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Rosemary’s Baby – 4/5 Stars I really liked this book, which the movie is an incredibly faithful adaptation. I won’t get into the movie much, but apparently Polanski had never adapted a novel before and basically took no liberties in the screenplay, so this book is really well represented on screen. We begin with Rosemary, married to an actor ten years her senior, finding out that despite having just signed a new lease, she’s being offered an apartment in a building she’s always had her […]

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vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:580 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ira levin, rosemary's baby, son of rosemary ·
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I have to begin with a few words about androgeny.

Crazy Salad by Nora Ephron

Scribble Scribble by Nora Ephron

October 23, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Crazy Salad – 3/5 Stars For me, reading this book came in three real swings. The first was marrying my reading of later essay collections to this one. There’s a lot of similarities between the essays in say I Feel Bad About My Neck to some of the essays here, especially ones like “Crazy Lady” and the ones about her college reunion. So there’s a kind of continuity. These essays tends to be funny in general, and slightly cutting but not particularly incisive. All of which […]

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vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:578 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: crazy salad, Nora ephron, scribble scribble ·
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The first time I got drunk was on Elijah’s wine.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James

The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen

October 23, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A Field Guide to Getting Lost – 4/5 Stars I wonder about whether this book could be translated as so much of the languaging that happens here (to borrow from Heidegger, someone else whose writing is quite difficult to translate) involves associative and impressionistic wandering often based in a kind of almost punning. There’s a moment late in the book, to spoil a great point, about how in English to be “lost” can happen in both time and space. And that doubling there really speaks […]

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vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:576 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: a field guide to getting lost, pd james, Rebecca Solnit, the year 1000, Valerie Hansen ·
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The Silence by Don Delillo

October 23, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the latest novel by Don Delillo, and it’s a novella, that, and I can’t emphasize this enough, is basically a long short story. It’s a very slim book with large type and big chapter jumps and it comes in at right at 100 pages. It will still set you back $22. There’s about five different mentions that Delillo finished this manuscript before Covid closures happened on the cover and flaps, and my reading up on this suggests that Delillo does not wish this […]

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vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:573 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Don DeLillo, the silence ·
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“What would you say if I shaved off my mustache?”

The Mustache by Emmanuel Carrere

October 22, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Mustache So this book is ridiculous and hilarious, but also so otherworldly weird, that when I read about it, I immediately found it online and bought it. We begin with our protagonist asking his wife if he should shave his mustache. They have been married for five years or so, are in their thirties, and things are going well. He has to shave twice a day to avoid having a five o’clock shadow, but he keeps a small, distinct mustache. It’s the 1980s. So […]

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vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:572 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Emmanuel Carrere, the mustache ·
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In 1969, Rupert Murdoch bought the struggling Sun broadsheet paper and turned it into a number-one bestselling tabloid that would also carry the nickname ‘The Scum.’

Sunburn by James Felton

October 20, 2020 by vel veeter 1 Comment

This is a book by the mostly online comedian James Felton (I know him solely through Twitter) that details in categorical breakdown the awfulness of the British tabloid The Sun. The book uses 99 headlines and details from other articles to tell the history of the paper owned by Rupert Murdoch. Felton breaks down this history into thematic categories like “celebrity” “racism” and “misogyny” and through light and really funny analysis spells out not only the offense, but also the effect and impact of the […]

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vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:570 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: James Felton, Sunburn ·
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