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Through the Looking Glass

Possession by A.S. Byatt

August 23, 2024 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Roland Mitchell is an unhappy man. Stuck in a job in academia in which he sees no future for himself, with a boss who seems to dislike him at every turn and a girlfriend who doesn’t appreciate him much either, he trundles along until he finds an unfinished letter in a book belonging to famed Victorian poet, Randolp Henry Ash. Along with fellow researcher Maud Bailey, Roland sets out to discover to whom Ash was writing.  I was warned beforehand that I would either adore […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: A.S. Byatt, Booker prize, possession

Zirza's CBR16 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: A.S. Byatt, Booker prize, possession ·
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“every death is significant, even when every life appears not to be”

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

May 1, 2023 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

I am exhausted: extremely jet-lagged and just submitted materials for my first major deadline of 2023. So what better to do than to review the last book I read in 2022 (finished at approximately 9:30 PM on New Year’s Eve, yes I know how to party), the Booker Prize-winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida? 2022 was actually my best year when it comes to attacking the Booker longlist; I read three of the nominees, and all of them were really excellent novels, in extremely divergent ways. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Booker prize, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lanka

tiny_bookbot's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Booker prize, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lanka ·
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Disintegration Station

The Promise by Damon Galgut

October 26, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

South Africa, 1987. As the country is in the death throes of Apartheid, defiantly buckling under the weight of an international boycott, a Jewish woman named Rachel Swart, mother of three and wife to farmer Herman ‘Manie’ Swart, dies of an unnamed disease. She makes her husband promise to gift the little shack on the back of her property to Salome, their maid. Amor, their youngest daughter, overhears them. After Rachel’s death the promise seems all too soon forgotten; they seem surprised whenever Amor brings […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: apartheid, Booker prize, Booker prize 2021 shortlist, Damon Galgut, Satire, south africa, the promise

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:46 · Genres: History · Tags: apartheid, Booker prize, Booker prize 2021 shortlist, Damon Galgut, Satire, south africa, the promise ·
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Image of a hand painting a portrait of a woman, with a seascape of an island superimposed over the woman's eyes

life on the edge, in more ways than one

The Colony by Audrey Magee

August 7, 2022 by tiny_bookbot 5 Comments

CBR Bingo Square: New Another entry in my summer of Irish fiction, but also one of the two Irish novels that made it onto this year’s Booker Prize longlist! (It’s a fun longlist this year, too, with both the oldest and youngest nominees, and the shortest book ever nominated.) I’m still waiting on Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These from the library, but I was able to check out Aubrey Magee’s The Colony almost immediately. And, oof, what a good novel. The novel is set on a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Audrey Magee, Booker prize, cbr14bingo

tiny_bookbot's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Audrey Magee, Booker prize, cbr14bingo ·
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A cityscape and mountain in silhouette against a bright pink, orange, and yellow sunset

“how terrifying it was not to be numb, but to be aware”

Milkman by Anna Burns

August 2, 2022 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo Square: Monster Damn, y’all. Yes, my summer of Irish fiction continues. Though I’ve had Anna Burns’s Milkman on my shelf for…maybe close to two years?…it’s a read I just kept putting off, and then I let my Instagram friends decide what novel I was gonna read next and this was the winner. Burns won the Booker Prize for this novel in 2018, and I can see why. (Sidebar: As much as I appreciate Margaret Atwood, the daring and deftness of what Burns accomplishes here […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: anna burns, Booker prize, cbr14bingo

tiny_bookbot's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: anna burns, Booker prize, cbr14bingo ·
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In a time when conspiracy theories run rampant, Sabrina seems all the more vital a read

Sabrina by Nick Drnaso

March 28, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

It’s not exactly been the best time for reading. I’m spending most of my breaks at work looking for a different job, since the one I started at two weeks ago sold me a bill of lies, and I’ve been sick for what feels like about half the time lately. Today, I’m on my second cold in a row. And when you’re tired on a good day, like I am, a cold will leave you with practically no energy to speak of. This means reading […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Booker prize, Graphic Novel, nick drnaso, sabrina

Travis_J_Smith's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Booker prize, Graphic Novel, nick drnaso, sabrina ·
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