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On day Turl the constructor put together a machine that could create anything starting with n.

The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem

Guys and Dolls by Damon Runyan

Wind/Pinball 1973 by Haruki Murakami

The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin

My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

The Blood of Elves by Andrej Sapkowski

A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters

Flatland by Edwin Abbott

The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin

The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George Higgins

Laughing in the Hills by Bill Barich

Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney

The Prince by Niccola Machiavelli

Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas

The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschmeier

How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

October 8, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Cyberiad – 3/5 Stars This is a collection of short stories by the Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem. Although it’s a collection, it’s more a series of linked stories almost in the form of a novel. If you’ve read a Stanislaw Lem novel, and I think this is my third, you’ll recognize a cognizant effort to question reality, but also the conventions of science fiction in general. Some of his novels like Solaris are highly metaphysical in nature, while authors, like Pirx the Pilot are […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: a morbid taste for bones, Andrej Sapkowski, Bill Barich, bright lights big city, Colm Toibin, Damon Runyan, Edmund Crispin, Edwin Abbott, Ellis Peters, faceless killers, flatland, George Higgins, guys and dolls, haruki murakami, Henning Mankell, how to pronounce knife, Jay McInerney, Jose Antonio Vargas, laughing in the hills, my search for warren harding, Niccola Machiavelli, Paul Hornschmeier, pinball 1973, Robert Plunket, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Stanislaw Lem, the blood of elves, the case of the gilded fly, the cyberiad, the friends of eddie coyle, the testament of mary, wind

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:542 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: a morbid taste for bones, Andrej Sapkowski, Bill Barich, bright lights big city, Colm Toibin, Damon Runyan, Edmund Crispin, Edwin Abbott, Ellis Peters, faceless killers, flatland, George Higgins, guys and dolls, haruki murakami, Henning Mankell, how to pronounce knife, Jay McInerney, Jose Antonio Vargas, laughing in the hills, my search for warren harding, Niccola Machiavelli, Paul Hornschmeier, pinball 1973, Robert Plunket, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Stanislaw Lem, the blood of elves, the case of the gilded fly, the cyberiad, the friends of eddie coyle, the testament of mary, wind ·
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So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading–about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning…

Ten Years in the Tub by Nick Hornby

October 3, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This website in a book! Starting in March of 2004 (I think, I don’t feel like checking) Nick Hornby of About a Boy and High Fidelity began writing a monthly column (I wanna say 2000-3000 words per month) where he catalogs the books he buys, the books he reads, and his thoughts on both. He even does us the service of mostly skipping books he didn’t like and not naming a lot of other books. He will mention when he doesn’t finish something, but that usually comes with […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Nick Hornby, ten years in the tub

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:525 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Nick Hornby, ten years in the tub ·
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Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly.

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

October 3, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The newest novel from Elena Ferrante and a slight, but not total departure for her. This book takes places in the 1980s and 1990s and is narrated by an adolescent girl (who through the course of the novel grows into a teen girl). We begin with her living with her parents when her father makes the remark that she is very ugly. This sets her off in part for the obvious reason of how hateful and cutting and damaging such a remark would be, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Elena Ferrante, the lying life of adults

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:524 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Elena Ferrante, the lying life of adults ·
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I was not sorry when my brother died.

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill

House Made of Dawn by Scott Momaday

The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

The Regulators by Stephen King

The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford

The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman

The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon

Skellig by David Almond

September 29, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Nervous Conditions – 4/5 This is one of those books that has been around for awhile, was highly lauded when it came out, and made the rounds in a few college courses and high school English departments. It was even given to me as a possible book to teach my first year of teaching for tenth graders. I promptly declined because I was brand new and didn’t have time to read something and create material for it. And I will be honest, I don’t like […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction Tagged With: Carl Sagan, Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, David Almond, Diana Athill, Graham Greene, jean stafford, jrr tolkien, nervous conditions, Scott Momaday, Stephen King, Tsitsi Dangarembga, WE Bowman

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:521 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction · Tags: Carl Sagan, Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, David Almond, Diana Athill, Graham Greene, jean stafford, jrr tolkien, nervous conditions, Scott Momaday, Stephen King, Tsitsi Dangarembga, WE Bowman ·
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“He’s just a pore lonesome wife-left feller,” the more understanding said of Fitz Linkhorn, “losin’ his old lady is what crazied him.”

Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren

September 25, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This 1956 novel follows a down on his luck man as he wanders the street, tries to make it in America, and doesn’t quite know what happens when you’ve already fallen through the cracks and are seeking a life with dignity and purpose in a world that ultimately doesn’t care if you live or die. And given what the US was in 1930s, those cracks and that lack of care are quite big. If I were to write a completely reductive book review (a thing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a walk on the wild side, Nelson Algren

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:512 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a walk on the wild side, Nelson Algren ·
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Sure, we had trouble building Space Station One—but the trouble was people.

Green Hills of Earth by Robert A Heinlein

September 25, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Green I think this completes my Bingo board. Or rather, this completes my Bingo Board. A story collection by Robert A Heinlein published in the 1940s. It’s not simply a collection of stories, but hangs together more so like Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot or Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles as linked stories (thematically at least) about early space exploration, but especially as early space colonization. The stories still mostly hold up and clearly are setting the tone and the scene for a lot of […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Green, robert a heinlein, the green hills of earth

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:511 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, Green, robert a heinlein, the green hills of earth ·
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