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When Mental was alive, he was a boss-man with eighteen or twenty children working for him, and he almost never raised his hand against any of them.

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

July 22, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Debut (2020) This is a 2020 debut novel from the Indian journalist Deepa Anappara. The novel takes place mostly on the outskirts of Mumbai as a group of school-age children seeks answers about a missing friend, whose name is soon added to a list of additional missing people. The novel primarily takes place in their small community neighborhood, the shops, the homes, and the school, but with various journeys more into the interior of the city looking for answers. The novel is primarily […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, debut, Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:397 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, debut, Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line ·
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You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain

July 20, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Friendship This is probably the tenth or so time I’ve read Huckleberry Finn, but the first time I have read it directly after reading the Adventure of Tom Sawyer, which changes things a little. Having re-read Tom Sawyer just previous to this, the very first thing that stands out is how much more the book seems to want to be doing. Tom Sawyer is about childhood and lampooning both the ways we talk about childhood, treat children, and write about childhood. Huckleberry Finn […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, friendship, Mark Twain, repeat, the adventures of huckleberry finn, tom sawyer abroad

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:396 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, friendship, Mark Twain, repeat, the adventures of huckleberry finn, tom sawyer abroad ·
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Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

July 20, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Book Club From the David Bowie Book Club – http://www.bowiebookclub.com/episodes/2018/5/19/billy-liar-by-keith-waterhouse One of the things that happens in so many of the “angry young man” books is that they’re desperately self-serious and ultimately unfunny. There’s a lot of self-loathing, not a lot of honest reflection, and plenty of feeling sorry for oneself. And while this book has all of that and more, it’s actually funny, which helps a lot. At first when I started reading this book, I thought it was a kind of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: book club, cbr12bingo, Keith Waterhouse

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:394 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: book club, cbr12bingo, Keith Waterhouse ·
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Whenever my mother drove us from coastal Mississippi to New Orleans to visit my father on the weekend, she would say, “Lock the doors.”

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Navigate Your Stars by Jesmyn Ward

July 20, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Nostalgia Men We Reaped: 5/5 Stars I can’t say I am nostalgic here, as I can’t imagine a childhood and teenage in America much different from mine, but I am about the age of Jesmyn Ward’s brother Joshua (and some of the other men and boys mentioned in this book), so it provides an interesting contrast to say the least. This 2013 memoir comes at the heels of Jesmyn Ward’s National Book Award winning novel Salvage the Bones and right before her second National […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped, navigate your stars, nostalgia

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:393 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: cbr12bingo, Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped, navigate your stars, nostalgia ·
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In June 1938 Virginia Woolf published Three Guineas, her brave, unwelcome reflections on the roots of war.

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

July 17, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I’ve read this slim volume about 4-5 times now, and each time I reread, there’s more here for me to think about. At the same time, I often forget much of its contents shortly after. It’s an interesting essay and argument style and I think it comes from Susan Sontag’s not being academic in approach. So there’s a wonderful connective musing quality here, that flits around a central thesis, without ever quite cementing things. I think this works wonderfully in terms of finding ways to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: regarding the pain of others, susan sontag

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:391 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: regarding the pain of others, susan sontag ·
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It became their motto, and Jonsey couldn’t for the life of him remember which of them started saying it first.

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

July 17, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR 12 Bingo – Adaptation So I chose this one for Adaptation, because I watched it late night on tv and thought it was a truly, truly terrible movie. And it is! It’s really awful. The book is also not great exactly, but it had some goals that the movie just seemed to shunt off into nothing.   So this book has that issue that a lot of Stephen King books do for me: fully realized and interesting characters and nonsensical or undeveloped central conceit. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12, dreamcatcher, Stephen King

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:390 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12, dreamcatcher, Stephen King ·
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