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Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal

A Sorrow beyond Dreams by Peter Handke

For Colored Girls... by Ntozake Shange

Madea by Euripides

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Beowulf by Trans. Heaney

Beowulf by Trans. Headley

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

June 22, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Point to Point Navigation – 4/5 This is a second and shorter memoir by Gore Vidal published a few years before he died. It wasn’t right before his death, but you get the impression that he is saying a last few things at least before he begins to wrap up his writing career. His career began when he was about 19 or so when he began writing what would become his first novel, Williwaw, a WWII short novel about a boat in the North Pacific […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Angela Carter, ann leckie, Ayn Rand, Euripides, Gore Vidal, ishmael reed, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ntozake Shange, peter handke, samuel beckett, Trans. Headley, Trans. Heaney

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:333 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Angela Carter, ann leckie, Ayn Rand, Euripides, Gore Vidal, ishmael reed, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ntozake Shange, peter handke, samuel beckett, Trans. Headley, Trans. Heaney ·
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I believe that health is wholeness.

Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry

The Trolley by Claude Simon

Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor

The Red Collar by Jean-Christophe Rufin

The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano

Across by Peter Handke

The Meeting at Telgte by Gunter Grass

July 18, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This, and a subsequent post will collect together a bunch of small books of no particular connection together. In some case I tend to find connections among various texts I end up reading at the same time. This is a product/habit from college and grad school where I would be taking multiple classes at the same time and looked to streamline my research and explore different ways to use the same critical texts in multiple ways. But mostly I am trying to clear off shelf-space […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: across, another turn of the crank, claude simon, gunter grass, jean-christophe rufin, nights at the alexandra, peter handke, Roberto Bolano, the meeting at telgte, the red collar, the secret of evil, the trolley, Wendell Berry, william trevor

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:420 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: across, another turn of the crank, claude simon, gunter grass, jean-christophe rufin, nights at the alexandra, peter handke, Roberto Bolano, the meeting at telgte, the red collar, the secret of evil, the trolley, Wendell Berry, william trevor ·
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The immensity of this edifice makes the park seem small.

December 10, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Absence – 4/5 Stars I started reading this one for a few different reasons. One, Peter Handke is often in the conversation for the Nobel Prize. In these conversations the general thread is that his work should be considered along the lines of a combination of his novels and fiction and also his screenwriting. I am not sure how I feel about that and I also feel like there’s a kind of gray area in terms of how many different forms/ how much of a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: absence, erasure, Friday Black, joe r. lansdale, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, pecival everett, peter handke, the goalie's anxiety at the penalty kick, utx, zeppelins west

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:449 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: absence, erasure, Friday Black, joe r. lansdale, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, pecival everett, peter handke, the goalie's anxiety at the penalty kick, utx, zeppelins west ·
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