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Sing Me Sweet Nothings! Or, Don’t.

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

January 17, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

    My mom’s family is solid Norwegian – I am only second generation American on that side.  So much of this book struck home with me.  Those people can work, and so nonchalantly, too.  Many don’t realize that until fairly recently, Norway was a very poor country, with steep rocky soil and a very short growing season.  Most of the men were out on the sea for most of the year as fishermen or merchant seaman, while the women stayed home to tend their […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: Child deaths, early 20th Century, Feminist Topics, Indigenous characters, Knut Hamsun, nobel prize winner!, Norwegian Classical lit, stream of consciousness

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: Child deaths, early 20th Century, Feminist Topics, Indigenous characters, Knut Hamsun, nobel prize winner!, Norwegian Classical lit, stream of consciousness ·
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Not My Flavor

The Flanders Road by Claude Simon

March 13, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport Flanders OK, let me just put this out there. Unconstructed prose is not my jam. Page after page with no structure, no punctuation, no paragraphs, OK, no. Looking at you James Joyce. Dubliners? Love. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man? Well OK. Finnigan’s Wake? OK, now we having issues. Ulysses? Oooohhh no. So I feel guilty about not giving this a better rating because it is not my cup of tea, but I suspect it is well written. Generally when I give […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Benelux history, CBR15Passport, claude simon, French history, Paragraph and punctution free, Repetitive relationships, stream of consciousness, Trench warfare, WWI and WWII

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Benelux history, CBR15Passport, claude simon, French history, Paragraph and punctution free, Repetitive relationships, stream of consciousness, Trench warfare, WWI and WWII ·
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Mrs. Dalloway

April 13, 2014 by ElCicco 7 Comments

I’m on a quest this year to read 50 books by 50 women writers (in honor of my impending 50th birthday and #ReadWomen2014), and as I’ve never read anything by Virginia Woolf, this felt like the right time to get to it. Mrs. Dalloway is a short novel by Woolf that covers the span of one day, marked by the hourly tolling of the bells. I would characterize it as having stream-of-consciousness narration, with the narrators switching from one to the next as they encounter […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #CBR6, Clarissa Dalloway, ElCicco, Fiction, London, mental illness, Mrs. Dalloway, ReadWomen2014, Shell Shock, social class, stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf, World War I

ElCicco's CBR6 Review No:11 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: #CBR6, Clarissa Dalloway, ElCicco, Fiction, London, mental illness, Mrs. Dalloway, ReadWomen2014, Shell Shock, social class, stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf, World War I ·
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