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Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars.

How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang

August 2, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Money! This is a recently published novel and was also recently nominated for the Booker Prize Longlist. The plot of the novel involves two children of a Chinese mother and a presumably Native father (though I feel like the novel was specifically vague) recently orphaned (first in 1862 in California). We meet them on the day their father has died and we come to realize their mother has died a few years earlier. In this opening section we are working at an almost […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: C Pam Zhang, How Much of these Hills is Gold

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:417 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: C Pam Zhang, How Much of these Hills is Gold ·
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It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel.

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Jeff Buckey's Grace (33 1/3) by Daphne A Brooks

Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over of the Sea (33 1/3) by Kim Cooper

July 28, 2020 by vel veeter 1 Comment

CBR12Bingo – Music This is a three parter.   A Visit from the Goon Squad – 3/5 Stars This book has the honor of being the very first book I ever got from Audible. I got it when it won the 2010 National Book Award and I think that audiobook is the best format for this novel as well. The novel is a series of narrative and short stories linked together thematically around music from the 1970s through some unclear point in the near future. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: a visit from the goon squad, Daphne A Brooks, Jennifer Egan, Kim Cooper

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:416 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: a visit from the goon squad, Daphne A Brooks, Jennifer Egan, Kim Cooper ·
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Two pieces of yesterday were in Captain Davidson’s mind when he woke, and he lay looking at them in the darkness for a while.

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin

The Telling by Ursula K Le Guin

July 28, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Word for World is Forest: 3/5 Stars A novella from 1972 and part of the Hainish cycle, this book tells the story of a human colony sent to an arboreal world to strip all the resources from it. They are commanded by a human explorer extraordinaire (who is characterized and portrayed in a very 19th century American sensibility of absolute dominance over the landscape and the people who live there). We come across the colony as they are about to receive a “shipment” of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: the telling, the word for world is forest, ursula k le guin

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:413 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: the telling, the word for world is forest, ursula k le guin ·
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Doctor Ain was recognized on the Omaha-Chicago flight.

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr

Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen

Orange World by Karen Russell

The Fall by Albert Camus

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield

July 28, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Gateway (Author) Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: 4/5 Stars This is one of those books that I spent multiple years trying to get myself through. I read one of the stories “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” awhile ago and really liked it. It’s almost like a play on a kind of Twlight Zone type stories with a big twist, but it’s longer and more nuanced and more realized than one of those stories. Instead, it feels like a heavy influence on someone like […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: albert camus, ballet shoes, cbr12bingo, Gateway, happy, her smoke rose up forever, Isak Dinesen, james tiptree jr, Karen Russell, Noel Streatfield, orange, orange world, seven gothic tales, The Fall

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:411 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: albert camus, ballet shoes, cbr12bingo, Gateway, happy, her smoke rose up forever, Isak Dinesen, james tiptree jr, Karen Russell, Noel Streatfield, orange, orange world, seven gothic tales, The Fall ·
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I’ll begin our story with that afternoon, we hadn’t spoken for a year…

Sunshine State by Sarah Gerard

Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler

The Warmest December by Bernice McFadden

Ordinary Light by Tracy K Smith

Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler

Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick

Thick and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Rosa Parks In her own Words by Susan Reyburn

July 22, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Sunshine State: 2/5 Stars A collection of essays ostensibly about Florida by Sarah Gerard, known for her previous novel Binary Star. Most reviewers (or at least the ones less impressed by this book) seem to land on the idea that the biographical essays are strong while the others are not. I think I fall in the other direction. The book is made of two-three kinds of essays: autobiographical/memoir pieces that range from quite impressionistic and meditative to more story-driven and then nonfiction profile pieces that also […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: anne tyler, back when we were grownups, Bernice McFadden, karen joy fowler, ordinary light, rosa parks in her own words, Sarah Gerard, sunshine state, Susan Reyburn, the warmest december, thick, Tracy K. Smith, Tressie McMillan Cottom, vivian gornick, wit's end

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:406 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: anne tyler, back when we were grownups, Bernice McFadden, karen joy fowler, ordinary light, rosa parks in her own words, Sarah Gerard, sunshine state, Susan Reyburn, the warmest december, thick, Tracy K. Smith, Tressie McMillan Cottom, vivian gornick, wit's end ·
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The insuperable gap between east and west that exists in some eyes is perhaps nothing more than an optical illusion.

The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle

July 22, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – No Money – Library Book The Bridge on the River Kwai So this book is the book the movie is based on, though the book is relatively small in scope compared to the grandness and sheer size of the movie. It most reminds me of the differences between the intimate spaces of CS Forrester’s The African Queen and the John Huston movie of the same. The book is a slim 200 pages and is almost entirely realistic narration and pretty straight forward characterization as […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, No Money, Pierre Boulle, The Bridge on the River Kwai

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:398 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, No Money, Pierre Boulle, The Bridge on the River Kwai ·
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