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Zadie Smith (1)

The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith

February 1, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“You’re either for me or against me, thought Alex-Li Tandem, referring to the daylight, and more generally, to the day.” Apparently I initially published without my review! Crazy! This is a reread for me. I first read this soon after it came out and soon after I devoured Zadie Smith’s debut novel White Teeth. At the time, I wasn’t really sure what to make of this book, and I think I have a better sense of it now, maybe because I am older or maybe […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Zadie Smith

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Zadie Smith ·
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Low Life by Lucy Sante

January 31, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“This is a book about New York.” This is the book by Lucy Sante, and it’s both a lot of fun and at times, a lot of work. There’s obviously a ton of work put into it as well. If you’re interested by New York, and this means both culturally and physically, and if you’ve also happened to read books like The Power Broker, learning about some of the life and structures of New York City circa the late 1800s is really fascinating.  The book […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Lucy Sante

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:43 · Genres: History · Tags: Lucy Sante ·
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Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

January 31, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“In the corner of the small living room of the small country house at the end of the dirt road beneath the Carolina sky, the dark-skinned five-year-old boy sat with his knees pulled to his chest and his small, dark arms wrapped around his legs and it took all he had to contain the laughter inside the thrumming cage of his chest.” This novel won the National Book Award in 2021 and at times is a soaring book and at other time is confounding, especially […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: jason mott

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:42 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: jason mott ·
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Various (1)

A People's Future of the United States by Victor LaValle, ed; et al

January 31, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“My father and I saw each other only three times before he died.” This collection is modeled, according to the introduction by Victor LaValle, on the structure and spirit of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, which, among other things, has always invited a lot of reaction and response. If you look at your local library or on Amazon, and especially in bargain bins of books, you will find a handful of reactionary Right-wing reversions of the text called things like “A […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Victor LaValle, ed; et al

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Victor LaValle, ed; et al ·
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Joyce Carol Oates (1)

We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

January 29, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“We were the Mulvaneys, remember us?” When Joyce Carol Oates slows down she is quite capable of writing very good fiction. This novel from 1996 is one of her more famous and popular novels, and given how many novels she’s written, maybe one of a very few that anyone not otherwise quite familiar with her could name, alongside some of the Wonderland quartet and of course Blonde. The novel is about a family in upstate New York from the 1960s through the 1990s, and it’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Joyce Carol Oates

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Joyce Carol Oates ·
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Rebecca West (1)

The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West

January 29, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“There was such a long pause that I wondered whether my Mamma and Papa were ever going to speak to each other again.” At times, this is one of the funniest novels I have ever read. It’s slightly overlong at times, and given that there’s two more books in the series, I don’t think that’s going to change. The book is a roman a clef by way of a bildungsroman. I don’t know how much of it directly based on Rebecca West’s life, but if […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: rebecca west

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: rebecca west ·
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