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Trust Excerise by Susan Choi

April 19, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Women have been writing about abuse for 1000s of years, and it’s weird to then consider a book that continues that long tradition a book referencing the #metoo movement. Mostly this feels weird because, one — it necessarily limits the author and makes them potentially seen as a cynical actor and not a serious writer. Two, it’s an oddly particular way to frame an enduring and eternal issue as a fad. So this book does involve a group reflecting back on abuses of power of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: susan choi, trust exercise

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:199 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: susan choi, trust exercise ·
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Then again, there were times he was forced to believe the exact opposite.

September 8, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A Person of Interest – 4/5 Stars So I don’t know who did this book a disservice, but someone did. It was NOT the author, who wrote a very thoughtful touching and interesting book. Maybe it was the synopsis writer who tried to make it seem like a mystery novel, when it very clearly is not. Anyway, the novel is about a math professor in the 1990s who is in his 60s and he works at a smallish liberal arts college. One day a bomb […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a person of interest, convenience store woman, nina berberova, sayaka murate, susan choi, the accompanist

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:342 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a person of interest, convenience store woman, nina berberova, sayaka murate, susan choi, the accompanist ·
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