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My mother drowned on the night of May 23rd, my birthday, in the sea at a place called Spaccavento, a few miles from Minturno.

Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

April 20, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Troubling Love This Elena Ferrante’s first novel and like her later novel The Lost Daughter there’s a lot here that feels very familiar if you’ve read the Neopolitan Novels. The next novel Days of Abandonment is very different. In this novel, we begin with our narrator finding out that her mother’s body has been found in the water, drowned, from an apparent suicide. She begins retracing her mother’s life in the recent years and weeks, and begins to confront the specters of her mother’s life that were […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter, troubling love

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:206 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter, troubling love ·
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A girl came out of lawyer Royall’s house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood at the doorstep.

Summer by Edith Wharton

April 16, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Don’t let the seasonal image of idyllic warm months fool you; this one is pretty bleak. Charity is seventeen, more or less an orphan, and leaves her small rural life with relatives, to move to town and work with a local lawyer. The lawyer is stern and officious, and more offensive, he offers to marry her. She is repulsed and turns her attention to a hot local boy, Lucas. They flirt, it’s exciting, they have sex a bunch of times, and she gets pregnant. Later, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Edith Wharton, summer

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:204 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Edith Wharton, summer ·
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We have every reason to believe this case is moving swiftly toward a successful conclusion.

The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson

April 15, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is memoir by Maggie Nelson, who I’ve previously read her newer book The Argonauts. This book is from 2009. In this memoir, which is not at all structured like a traditional memoir, follow Nelson in the years after she’s published a poetry collection called Jane which is about the murder of her aunt, and included decolletage of her aunt’s diaries cut into various of the poems. There’s a moment where Nelson tells us how violating it feels to have someone read a diary when they’re living, but […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Maggie Nelson, the red parts

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:203 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Maggie Nelson, the red parts ·
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When I got home from the supermarket, my husband was watching a boxing match on TV.

The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya

April 15, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a recently translated collection by the Japanese writer Yukiko Motoya. You should read the first story and just decide from there. The tone of that story and the weird, curious, funny, and subtle tone of the lead story will basically sell you on the book or usher you aside. In the opening story, a married woman who feels like her husband is no longer paying attention to her takes up an offer for 100 free gym lessons not to lose weight as the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: the lonseome bodybuilder, Yukiko Motoya

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:202 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: the lonseome bodybuilder, Yukiko Motoya ·
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Michelle wasn’t sure when everyone start hanging out at the Albion.

Black Wave by Michelle Tea

April 15, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I loved this book. I think you might too if you’re a fan of self-referential books with a sense of humor and wryness about them, but especially books like I Love Dick by Chris Krause and After Claude by Iris Owens. So the book is a third person account of a mostly true or probably true or kind of true story of Michelle Tea as a mostly functional drug addict and alcoholic in Los Angeles in the late 1990s. It’s not an addiction, except that it is, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Black Wave, Michelle Tea

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:201 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Black Wave, Michelle Tea ·
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling

April 14, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is about the tenth time I’ve read this, but only the first time since I read it last year. After reading The History of Magic and Tales of Beedle the Bard, I was interested mildly in revisiting it, but then Hoopla put it on a list of books you could borrow with affecting your monthly count I went for it. Rather than review it I will simply make some stray remarks. They might end up being the same ones I made last year, but […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:200 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling ·
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