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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

We Always Treat Women too Well by Raymond Queneau

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

I, Autohouse by Gish Jen

American Santa by Vanessa Hua

One More Hour by Carrie Brownstein and Corrin Tucker

My Therapist, My Lover by Cris Beam

Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Adichie

June 26, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Sense of an Ending – 4/5 Stars This is a reread from a few years ago, and in the reread I like it a lot better now than I did then. I do think the plot goes a little off the rails but the narration, the narrator, the character development are all alive and rich, and so beautifully and painfully rendered. There’s a lot of emotional tenderness, sadness, pain, anger, and spirit here. Our narrator is a man in his late fifties or early […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Carrie Brownstein and Corrin Tucker, Chimamanda Adichie, Cris Beam, Gish Jen, Julian Barnes, Raymond Queneau, Robert Heinlein, Toni Morrison, vanessa hua

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:275 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Carrie Brownstein and Corrin Tucker, Chimamanda Adichie, Cris Beam, Gish Jen, Julian Barnes, Raymond Queneau, Robert Heinlein, Toni Morrison, vanessa hua ·
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Parts Better than the Whole, for sure

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Adichie

January 7, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is my third Chimamanda Adichie book. Previously I have read Purple Hibiscus and Americanah. In both previous books, I enjoyed the richness of language and the careful, detailed narration. I think I also must have enjoyed the relatively long gap between reading them, because having read Americanah not that long ago sort of soured this book a little. In part, this was souring because one of the stories traces some of the specific plot from that book or closely enough borrows the narration that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Chimamanda Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Chimamanda Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ·
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