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A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Signed, Picpus by Georges Simenon

Vernon Downs by Jamie Clarke

The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana

November 2, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A Moveable Feast – 4/5 This is kind of a memoir by Hemingway, one that he was working on before he died. It’s not complete, but according to the editorial notes by one of his sons and grandsons, it’s close. This edition undoes some of the more confusing and intrusive decisions from the original publication in the 70s when Mary Hemingway was presiding over the book, which includes her basically writing one of the chapters herself. But the material cut from that edition are presented […]

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

June 11, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Hemingway gets a lot of shit, but boy when he wrote his first novel, he wrote a perfect one. That’s my recommendation by the way. If you’re going to write a novel, write a perfect one. The first time I read this book I didn’t really understand why Jake and Brett didn’t just get together. As far as a reason, this one is a doozy. Jake of course has been injured in the war, specifically receiving shrapnel while flying a mission. His injury has left […]

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Kink: Stories by R. O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Swapna Krishna, Jenn Northington

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

August 29, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 5 Comments

Hey y’all- long time, no read! I took some time off from reviewing while on vacation, then let vacation mind take over all of my non-work mind and found myself in a reviewing hole. Then, work swallowed me whole. I started writing this on August 9th. Just finishing it now on the 29th-Cait Also, I haven’t been reading reviews here either, so be prepared for a wave of comments coming your way! Good news: I truly enjoyed all seven of these books. One was a […]

cbr12bingo – The Roaring 20s (and two more “bingos”)

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

September 20, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Oh, Hemingway. You dirty old dog. I have a soft-spot for the Lost Generation, and a sentimental attachment to The Sun Also Rises. While plenty of this novel- and his writing in general- has aged poorly, there is still value to be found. Hemingway was plenty of things as both an author and a man, but here I will choose to focus on the story and the broken people within- and the story of my attachment to this book. My first read was back in […]

Hemingway is jerk

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

September 18, 2020 by Wanderlustful 2 Comments

Last week the BF and I did a Paris-themed date night from the claustrophobic comfort of our condo. I made a playlist with Edith Piaf, cracked a bottle of wine and put a Youtube tour of the Louvre on in the background. I also started reading A Moveable Feast, Hemingway’s memoir of his Paris years in the 20’s- I’d been saving it for my next physical trip to the City of Lights, but as that trip might be years out, I thought I’d indulge in […]

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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 […]

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