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Half an hour after Tim Jamieson’s flight was scheduled to leave Tampa for the bright lights and tall buildings of New York, it was still parked at the gate.

The Institute by Stephen King

Apt Pupil by Stephen King

April 29, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Institute – 4/5 Stars I really liked this one! For whatever reason this one kept getting criticized in ways that made me push reading it for a few months (I’ve had the Audiofiles since the week it came out), but I could tell in the opening chapter, the book was going to settle into itself slowly in ways that I’ve liked Stephen King’s longer books to do. If this book were 1000 pages I would still like it. The last act speeds up a […]

Why is, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” the go-to small talk we make with children?

Shrill by Lindy West

The Witches are Coming by Lindy West

April 29, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Shrill 4/5 Stars If you’ve seen the show, you’re already pre-disposed to like this book. If you like this book, that might well have been the reason you watched the show. Regardless, this is a very good memoir, with a clearly defined, already tempered and recognized voice. And I happened to read hear the audiobook version, and that version is good because so much of the book is carefully written in Lindy West’s voice, and she reads the audiobook. While this book touches a little […]

When Joe Starling was ten years old, his father’s bank foreclosed on a fieldstone mansion which was by then a depressing ruin standing by itself in the middle of a fourteen-section cattle pasture.

Keep the Change by Thomas McGuane

"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace

Night-Flight by Antoine St Exupery

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

April 23, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Keep The Change – 2/5 Stars This is a novel by Thomas McGuane, mostly known for Western and Southern novels that have an air of seriousness to them and a lot of ironic gesturing and clippy dialog. I’ve previous read one of his short story collections which was very strong, but he’s been around for awhile. This novel is ok, but I can’t say I connected much with it. Joe works as a teen on a farm that his father foreclosed on and the new […]

Celia knew a bad place when she saw it.

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfield

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints.... by Val McDermid

Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie

April 22, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Sometimes my reading comes in clusters. The cluster here is leftover audiobooks and books around the house before I permanently delete them or donate them! Quarantine house cleaning!! The Butterfly Girl 2/5 Stars – This is the second of the Naomi Cottle series. Naomi is a former abducted child with the uncanny ability to find missing, lost, and abducted children. In the previous book she reconnected with a former friend from childhood and formed a relationship with him. In this book, that partnership is at […]

When they write my obituary.

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

April 22, 2020 by vel veeter 2 Comments

This is a really competent novel that has at its center a really fragile heart. I have always been wary of this book (it came out about 15 years ago), because I don’t really like the description of it, and I don’t think that it quite is what it says it is, and because of the title. The title refers to a novel written and published in Spanish by a Jewish writer of Argentine and European descent. The novel also happens to be a novel […]

Sleep well, dear.

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

April 21, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a short, curious novel that has one of my favorite tropes, the violently angry philosophical tyrant in a 13 year old boy’s body. We are dealing with three characters over the course of many years and there’s a lot of moving back and forth in their lives. Noboru, our teenage tyrant, is leader of a gang of father-hating teen boys who are also good students. They are lead by Noboru’s who hatred for his absent father, who he believes is the source of […]

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