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Kneeling in the fragrant moist grass of the village green Clara Morrow carefully hid the Easter egg and thought about raising the dead, which she planned to do right after supper.

The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

The Last Colony by John Scalzi

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque

My Mum is a Twat by Anoushka Warden

Bella Bella by Harvey Fierstein

Intimations by Zadie Smith

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton

Leviathan by Paul Auster

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Light of Day by Eric Ambler

Omeros by Derek Walcott

Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Rumble Fish by SE Hinton

Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani

August 19, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Cruelest Month – 3/5 Stars This is the third Louise Penny “Inspector Gamache” detective novel, and I think it’s a decided dip in quality from an overarching look at it. The mystery itself, quaint, small town, punctuated with poetry and art and other little considerations is perfectly interesting. At a seance, from a combination of fright and maybe poisoning, a woman is found dead. There must be an elaborate set of circumstances to come to pass to have her die, but if they were […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: A Princess of Mars, all quiet on the western front, Anoushka Warden, becoming abigail, bella bella, Chris Abani, Derek Walcott, Edgar Rice Burroughs, eric ambler, Erich Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Harvey Fierstein, humiliated and insulted, intimations, john le carré, john scalzi, leviathan, Louise Penny, Michael Crichton, my mum is a twat, omeros, Paul Auster, rumble fish, SE Hinton, The Cruelest Month, the last colony, the light of day, the old man and the sea, the spy who came in from the cold, the terminal man, Zadie Smith

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:456 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: A Princess of Mars, all quiet on the western front, Anoushka Warden, becoming abigail, bella bella, Chris Abani, Derek Walcott, Edgar Rice Burroughs, eric ambler, Erich Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Harvey Fierstein, humiliated and insulted, intimations, john le carré, john scalzi, leviathan, Louise Penny, Michael Crichton, my mum is a twat, omeros, Paul Auster, rumble fish, SE Hinton, The Cruelest Month, the last colony, the light of day, the old man and the sea, the spy who came in from the cold, the terminal man, Zadie Smith ·
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I arrive at St Gatien from Nice on Tuesday, the 14th of August.

Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler

January 31, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A spy novel from the early 195os, but taking place in the 1930s in the lead up to WWII. We follow an almost entirely stateless man–a Hungarian-born man with Yugoslavia passport that came to him through a brokered treaty in the wake of WWI and who finds himself in some trouble in France when his camera is confiscated by the police containing photos of armaments on the coastline of Nice. Because he is charged with espionage and because of his fragile existence in the country, […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: epitaph for a spy, eric ambler

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:46 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: epitaph for a spy, eric ambler ·
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In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

May 7, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So I can’t say I know very much about Eric Ambler, other than to say that he and his career are sort of contemporaneous with someone like Raymond Chandler. He is most well know for crime fiction and mysteries, spy novels, and international suspense tales. He’s also one of those interesting writers who joined up the war effort and had a successful service career, becoming a Lt. Colonel. He’s also the author of several novels that were adapted to films — Journey into Fear starring […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: a coffin for dimitrios, eric ambler

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:245 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: a coffin for dimitrios, eric ambler ·
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