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Jeanette Winterson; Joyce Carol Oates

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

American Melancholy by Joyce Carol Oates

April 6, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock.” Another reread of The Passion for me, this time specifically because I had the audiobook for it, and that tends to go very quickly. One thing about the audiobook that works here especially is that they used a male reader for the Henri sections, and a woman for the Villanelle sections. What stands out most to me this time around is the way in which in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Jeanette Winterson, Joyce Carol Oates

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:225 · Genres: Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Jeanette Winterson, Joyce Carol Oates ·
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March 2023 Leftovers

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell

The Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Cammalleri

Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

Tina, Mafia Soldier by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli

The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz

An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder by Susan Wels

Every Man a King by Walter Mosley

The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates

Robert B. Parker's Lullaby by Ace Atkins

The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker

Play the Fool by Lina Chern

April 2, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Man, that month went fast The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion**** I might have a lot more to say about this one had I finished it weeks ago but I’ll be honest, I’m starting to hit my limit on books about tech geniuses that the public discovers aren’t all they’re cracked up to be only after they’re handed billions of dollars. Theranos, Uber and now WeWork all run by self-glorifying con artists. This book is as well done as the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Ace Atkins, Adam Neumann, an assassin in utopia, Andrea Cammalleri, Boston, Charles Joseph Guiteau, corporate nonsense, eight perfect murders, Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell, Every Man a King, feminism, hard case crime, Inspector Montalbano, isolation, James Garfield, Joyce Carol Oates, Julia Bartz, King Oliver, Lina Chern, lullaby, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, mystery, new york, Peter Swanson, Play the Fool, presidential assassinations, Robert B. Parker, Robert B. Parker's Lullaby, Sicily, Spenser, Susan Wels, tarot reading, The Cult of We, The Godwulf Manuscript, the terra-cotta dog, The Triumph of the Spider Monkey, the writing retreat, tina mafia soldier, true crime, walter mosley, WeWork

Jake's CBR15 Review No:43 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Ace Atkins, Adam Neumann, an assassin in utopia, Andrea Cammalleri, Boston, Charles Joseph Guiteau, corporate nonsense, eight perfect murders, Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell, Every Man a King, feminism, hard case crime, Inspector Montalbano, isolation, James Garfield, Joyce Carol Oates, Julia Bartz, King Oliver, Lina Chern, lullaby, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, mystery, new york, Peter Swanson, Play the Fool, presidential assassinations, Robert B. Parker, Robert B. Parker's Lullaby, Sicily, Spenser, Susan Wels, tarot reading, The Cult of We, The Godwulf Manuscript, the terra-cotta dog, The Triumph of the Spider Monkey, the writing retreat, tina mafia soldier, true crime, walter mosley, WeWork ·
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We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

January 29, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“We were the Mulvaneys, remember us?” When Joyce Carol Oates slows down she is quite capable of writing very good fiction. This novel from 1996 is one of her more famous and popular novels, and given how many novels she’s written, maybe one of a very few that anyone not otherwise quite familiar with her could name, alongside some of the Wonderland quartet and of course Blonde. The novel is about a family in upstate New York from the 1960s through the 1990s, and it’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Joyce Carol Oates

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Joyce Carol Oates ·
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There’s always been a rainbow hangin over your head (CBR12Bingo: Violet – Blackout)

Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates

August 24, 2020 by octothorp 2 Comments

I have to be honest, I never got the cult of Marilyn, even with an aunt whose sloe eyes and platinum hair invited a comparison she doubled down on by naming my cousin after Monroe. I’ve seen quite a few of her performances, and wasn’t unimpressed – you have to be pretty clever to play dumb convincingly, and even in her low-watt-bulb roles Marilyn never seemed dumb, just sort of airily unconcerned with whether she seemed smart or not. I’ve seen Niagara, I’ve seen Some […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction Tagged With: blackout, cbr12bingo, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilyn Monroe, violet

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:99 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction · Tags: blackout, cbr12bingo, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilyn Monroe, violet ·
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I brung Pedro home for Thanksgiving break and tomorrow I have to bring him back to school.

Providence by Caroline Kepnes

Flight from the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch

High Crime Area by Joyce Carol Oates

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Real Sherlock by Lucinda Hawksley

Agent 355 by Marie Benedict

July 13, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Providence: 2/5 Stars The newer novel by Caroline Kepnes of YOU fame. It’s…well, it’s not great. There’s so many of the same pieces that made You a good, if goofily rehashed novel, are there, but serving this story they just don’t work as well. The plot here is that a young boy is kidnapped by a former substitute teacher. While he’s missing his best friend grows into her adolescence and loses touch with that connection, but she’s haunted by images of his eyes, his presence, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Caroline Kepnes, Elizabeth Gaskell, Iris Murdoch, Joyce Carol Oates, Lucinda Hawksley, Marie Benedict

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:380 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Caroline Kepnes, Elizabeth Gaskell, Iris Murdoch, Joyce Carol Oates, Lucinda Hawksley, Marie Benedict ·
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The rented Toyota, driven with such impatient exuberance…

Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates

February 26, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So the world at large, and America in particular is an especially misogynistic place. And this novel explores one particular facet of that misogyny, the disposable nature of women and girls. Based on the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident in which Ted Kennedy drunkenly drove off into the water, escaped with his life, while leaving the 29 year old campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne to die in the car, this novel explores the ways in which specific power of a Senator, and the more generalized power of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:91 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates ·
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