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Egypt has been called The Gift of the Nile.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy

Far From Home by Walter Tevis

Anglo Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson

August 6, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Shelfie These three books are not connected in any meaningful way except that I happened to buy all of them earlier in the summer from Thriftbooks and randomly chose to read them at the same time, switching off for a few reasons. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ended up being a little more boring and dense that I had hoped, so the balance of the Walter Tevis stories helped, and while I really enjoy the Will Cuppy pieces, they are too similar to one another to […]

From high up, fifteen thousand feet above, where the aerial photographs are taken, 4121 Wilson Avenue, the address I know best, is a minuscule point, a point of green

The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom

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CBR12Bingo – Yellow This is a recently published memoir that is presented as a family history. Sarah Broom grew up in New Orleans East, a community that others would give her looks when she mentioned it to strangers, and as the youngest of twelve children, she tells the story of her grandparents, her parents, her siblings, herself, and the house at the center of their lives. The memoir tells the family history and its strength here is giving us a series of events from […]

He was of medium height, somewhat chubby, and good looking, with curly red hair and an innocent, gay face, more remarkable for a humorous air about the eyes and large mouth more than for any strength of chin or nobility of nose.

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

The King of Torts by John Grisham

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The Caine Mutiny – 5/5 Stars A truly wonderful, carefully plotted and thoughtful war and anti-war novel from Herman Wouk, for which he won the Pulitzer in 1952 or so. The novel takes place mainly aboard the “USS Caine,” a minesweeper destroyer that is mostly stationed in Pearl Harbor and other naval bases, and who’s job is to tow artillery targets, clear shipping lanes, and minesweep. In a pinch, it could be used to fight submarines, but that is not the fate here of this […]

Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northen Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy.

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

August 6, 2020 by vel veeter 1 Comment

CBR12Bingo – Red So this is my second Tom Clancy book, and like the other one, Patriot Games, it’s a solid spy novel with an absolutely simplistic childish morality affixed to it nonsensically. There’s a moment in an Orson Scott Card novel where a group of white middle class people discuss how the subtleties of Western cooking, which developed because of sensitive white palates, has a kind of Enlightenment superiority (and they say all this with a kind of affected sympathy) over, in this case, […]

“Mary Sperling, you’re a fool not to marry him!”

Methuseleh's Children by Robert A Heinlein

August 2, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So this is a very early Robert A Heinlein novel, but one that I also really liked. So apparently it was first serialized in 1941, but this full edition probably went through a lot of editing and rewrites for its publication in 1958. It takes places a few hundred years in the future, and we find ourselves situated within a commune of humans that through selective breeding have extended human life expectancy to one and a half to two and half times the natural lifespan. […]

Atticus was almost home when the state trooper pulled him over.

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

Flygirl by Sherri L Smith

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I didn’t actually mean to put these books side by side in choosing to read them so close together. But they share a few similarities. Flygirl takes place in the 1940s and deals heavily with segregation and passing. And Lovecraft Country takes place in the 1950s and also deals heavily with segregation, as well as the Green travel guide, Jim Crows laws, and a…kind…of passing. But the weird thing both shared, in back to back days was that both, in dialog, used the word “panic […]

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Egypt has been called The Gift of the Nile.

From high up, fifteen thousand feet above, where the aerial photographs are taken, 4121 Wilson Avenue, the address I know best, is a minuscule point, a point of green

He was of medium height, somewhat chubby, and good looking, with curly red hair and an innocent, gay face, more remarkable for a humorous air about the eyes and large mouth more than for any strength of chin or nobility of nose.

Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northen Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy.

“Mary Sperling, you’re a fool not to marry him!”

Atticus was almost home when the state trooper pulled him over.

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