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Some Shorts (Evelyn Waugh (1); Italo Calvino (1); Henry James (1); Stephen Graham Jones (1); Cassandra Khaw(1); John Grisham (1); CW Longbottom (1)

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Henry James by A Tragedy of Error

Midnight Caller by Stephen Graham Jones

Don't Turn on the Lights by Cassandra Khaw

The Tumor by John Grisham

Tears of the Anaren by CW Longbottom

Village of Islands by Jim Shepard

February 21, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Loved One “All the day the heat had been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the west, blowing from the heart of the setting sun and from the ocean” I rented the first disc of Six Feet Under from Blockbuster just as soon as the dvds of the first season came out. I remember that one of the first scenes of the show, and the first season of the show was weird, like the ways that the first season of Sex […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A Tragedy of Error, Cassandra Khaw, CW Longbottom, Evelyn Waugh, Italo Calvino, Jim Shepard, John Grisham, Stephen Graham Jones

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:122 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A Tragedy of Error, Cassandra Khaw, CW Longbottom, Evelyn Waugh, Italo Calvino, Jim Shepard, John Grisham, Stephen Graham Jones ·
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Round up 1

Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe

A Window into Time by Peter F Hamilton

The 10th Victim by Robert Sheckley

The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham

Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

Keep Moving by Maggie Smith

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino

September 11, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Sword of the Lictor – 4/5 I might be getting a little series fatigue on these books. It doesn’t help the matter that this is the second time I am reading these books. I am doing that because while I have read them before I am trying reconcile my feelings of them with the rave reviews I read online. The thing I most like about the books is that the world they inhabit feels very strongly like the kind of world I would love […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: elizabeth strout, gene wolfe, Italo Calvino, Maggie Smith, Margery Allingham, Peter F Hamilton, robert sheckley, Sōsuke Natsukawa, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:525 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: elizabeth strout, gene wolfe, Italo Calvino, Maggie Smith, Margery Allingham, Peter F Hamilton, robert sheckley, Sōsuke Natsukawa, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar ·
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If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler

If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

June 27, 2022 by vel veeter 1 Comment

You are about to read Vel Veeter’s review of Italo Calvino’s 1979 novel If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, when you notice that Vel Veeter has begun their review of the novel in the same style of the opening of the novel. The novel begins with a second-person narrator telling you that you are reading the new novel. As you make your way into the novel, having purchased it, and the novel gets a little subjunctive here by not allowing you to skim the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Italo Calvino

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:341 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Italo Calvino ·
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Readings about Reading

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco

The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino

The Western Canon by Harold Bloom

How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas Foster

Twenty Five Books that Shaped America by Thomas Foster

How to Read Noves like a Professor by Thomas Foster

Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick

How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom

May 22, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods – 5/5 Stars One of the most exciting things to feel, for me at least, is when reading becomes not just an act of enjoying and engaging with a story or ideas, but an active hunt for meaning and understanding. I am a big proponent of doing the reading you want to do and mostly letting other people do the reading they want to do. Eco describes early in this collection of six lectures on reading (and specifically on […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: elizabeth hardwick, Harold Bloom, Italo Calvino, Thomas Foster, umberto eco

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:231 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: elizabeth hardwick, Harold Bloom, Italo Calvino, Thomas Foster, umberto eco ·
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Interesting exploration on how we find meaning, iffy delivery

The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino

December 18, 2020 by Mobius_Walker 3 Comments

This book is told in two parts: The Castle and The Tavern. In both situations, a group of strangers come together around a table and strangely, inexplicably find themselves all mute. They yearn to tell each other their stories, and thankfully someone has a deck of Tarot cards with which each person attempts to choose cards to lay out in various configurations in order to communicate their tale. In the first half, The Castle, things are orderly; people take turns telling their story and they […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Italo Calvino, short stories, storytelling, Tarot

Mobius_Walker's CBR12 Review No:45 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Italo Calvino, short stories, storytelling, Tarot ·
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There is no better place to keep a secret than in an unfinished novel

August 15, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Castle of Crossed Destinies – 2/5 Stars I knew it. I knew I was not going to like this one, and I made it about 20 pages in before I truly understood that the book was going to annoy. That’s a lot of annoying for a book that’s only 120 pages long. So the setup of this novel is that a group of people find themselves holed up in a tavern and unable to speak. This setup, which plays upon especially The Decameron, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: edmund white, Italo Calvino, john cheever, Love, nocturnes for the king of naples, oh what a paradise it seems, peter nadas, ro kwon, the castle of crossed destinies, the incendiaries

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:311 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: edmund white, Italo Calvino, john cheever, Love, nocturnes for the king of naples, oh what a paradise it seems, peter nadas, ro kwon, the castle of crossed destinies, the incendiaries ·
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