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He found her already seated at the coffee shop.

False Bingo by Jac Jemc

Separate Hours by Jonathan Baumbach

The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov

Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz

The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty

Souls and Bodies by David Lodge

March 26, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

False Bingo 3/5 This is a solid, weird, sometimes scary, sometimes cutting short story collection. I didn’t really like Jemc’s other novel that I read, but I generally liked these stories. The collection begins with a really funny and weird meetup in a coffeeshop that’s punchy and wry. We get some stories about seemingly haunted houses, about weird relationships. Many of the stories are quite short, but some of the longer ones really put something down that is interesting to stick around with. Two come […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: David Lodge, Eudora Welty, False Bingo, fatelessness, Imre Kertesz, jac jemc, jonathan baumbach, separate hours, Sergei Dovlatov, souls and bodies, the golden apples, the suitcase

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:157 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: David Lodge, Eudora Welty, False Bingo, fatelessness, Imre Kertesz, jac jemc, jonathan baumbach, separate hours, Sergei Dovlatov, souls and bodies, the golden apples, the suitcase ·
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Pregnancy and dissertations don’t go together.

April 18, 2015 by bonnie 2 Comments

I’ve read some of David Lodge’s literary criticism but never any of his novels. My undergrad advisor had recommended The British Museum Is Falling Down as a twentieth-century novel that is really funny. And truly, in my field, funny is not always so easy to find. I was more than happy to give it a shot, but excited to see that it’s also a novel about academia. The novel focuses on Adam Appleby, a doctoral student and a devout Catholic, who is afraid that his […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: bonnie, David Lodge

bonnie's CBR7 Review No:60 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: bonnie, David Lodge ·
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