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“The rocket made climates, and summer lay for a brief moment upon the land…”

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

July 20, 2022 by GentleRain 3 Comments

CBR14Bingo: Hot This is a book I kept out of the library so long as a kid that I accrued a $75 fine (do I currently have two books out of the library that are also so overdue they’re going to charge me for them if I don’t return them — yes, I haven’t learned my lesson). I can’t even imagine how many times I’ve read it and I’m happy to say it holds up yet again. It has been a few years since I’d […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, cbr14bingo, classic sci-fi, mars, Ray Bradbury, short story cycle

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:77 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, cbr14bingo, classic sci-fi, mars, Ray Bradbury, short story cycle ·
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Drugs and Other Unreliable Narrators

September 13, 2018 by Ale Leave a Comment

I read this with my mentor for our Advanced Fiction course, and it’s definitely far outside my wheelhouse in both content and structure. Johnson’s story follows an unnamed addict through a series of short snippets told out of order chronicling his cycle of addiction and rehabilitation. Johnson’s choice to tell this story out of order worked very well, as we get to see all the different facets of the narrator regardless of where he is in his habits, or what he’s doing.  All the narration […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #notmywheelhouse, cbr10bingo, Denis Johnson, drug culture, rehab, short story cycle

Ale's CBR10 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #notmywheelhouse, cbr10bingo, Denis Johnson, drug culture, rehab, short story cycle ·
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