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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

We Always Treat Women too Well by Raymond Queneau

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

I, Autohouse by Gish Jen

American Santa by Vanessa Hua

One More Hour by Carrie Brownstein and Corrin Tucker

My Therapist, My Lover by Cris Beam

Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Adichie

June 26, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Sense of an Ending – 4/5 Stars This is a reread from a few years ago, and in the reread I like it a lot better now than I did then. I do think the plot goes a little off the rails but the narration, the narrator, the character development are all alive and rich, and so beautifully and painfully rendered. There’s a lot of emotional tenderness, sadness, pain, anger, and spirit here. Our narrator is a man in his late fifties or early […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Carrie Brownstein and Corrin Tucker, Chimamanda Adichie, Cris Beam, Gish Jen, Julian Barnes, Raymond Queneau, Robert Heinlein, Toni Morrison, vanessa hua

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:275 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Carrie Brownstein and Corrin Tucker, Chimamanda Adichie, Cris Beam, Gish Jen, Julian Barnes, Raymond Queneau, Robert Heinlein, Toni Morrison, vanessa hua ·
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A lovely book that just wasn’t entirely for me

Beloved by Toni Morrison

April 5, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I feel like a little shit for rating this three stars in the middle of a slew of historical England romance novels that feature colonies as exotic backdrops but I think I can reasonably separate what I think is a moving story from my personal issues with style and choice of medium. I’ve wondered a lot at what we consider “high literature” and what makes for literature vs “easy reading.” I actively try and pick books from both sides of the coin, alternating between the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Toni Morrison

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:56 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Toni Morrison ·
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Makes me wish I knew more about jazz

Jazz by Toni Morrison

September 12, 2020 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR12 BINGO: The Roaring 20’s Have you ever gone to the movies, and as the credits roll, you can’t say that you loved the film  or that you hated it, you just kind of think, “hmmm,” but for days after you find yourself pondering it, and visions of certain scenes and themes invade your thoughts, so eventually you come to realize that you’ve experienced something special? Jazz is like that. During the first few chapters, I appreciated the beauty of the language but couldn’t help […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: African American literature, cbr12, cbr12bingo, historial fiction, jazz era, KimMiE", Toni Morrison

KimMiE"'s CBR12 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: African American literature, cbr12, cbr12bingo, historial fiction, jazz era, KimMiE", Toni Morrison ·
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Murder ballad with a swinging beat

Jazz by Toni Morrison

July 25, 2020 by Merryn Leave a Comment

Jazz. The themes are laid down, a story old as dirt, a triangular tangle of middle-aged man and wife and young girl with the tragic end at the beginning. “Can’t rival the dead for love. Lose every time.” Harlem, 1926. The pulse of a city, “in halls and offices people are sitting and thinking future thoughts about projects and bridges and fast-clicking trains underneath”. These people have come north in the Great Migration from the rural south to the northern cities, looking to escape the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12, cbr12bingo, Toni Morrison

Merryn's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12, cbr12bingo, Toni Morrison ·
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Beautiful and Heartbreaking

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

July 24, 2020 by Wanderlustful 1 Comment

Set in the early 1940s, The Bluest Eye is the story of three young black girls living in Lorain, Ohio: two sisters, Claudia and Frieda MacTeer, and a foster child taken in by their family, Pecola Breedlove.  The first page tells us that bad things are in store for Pecola- she becomes pregnant with her father’s baby and that baby dies- and then Claudia narrates the fall, winter and spring that lead to those events.  Interspersed in between Claudia’s chronological account of these three seasons […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, violet

Wanderlustful's CBR12 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, violet ·
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Sth, I know that woman.

Jazz by Toni Morrison

July 8, 2020 by vel veeter 1 Comment

CBR12 Bingo – UnCannon This is a reread so my review is going to wander at times and focus on singular parts of the story. I also listened this audiobook while the last time I read it, I read it straight. I also was strangely walking around Richmond as I listened and they’ve been taking down Confederate statues this week and they’ve be scrubbing and cleaning up spaces not Confederate (or linked) also tagged by graffiti, so there’s a funny contrast of what the city […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, jazz, Toni Morrison, UnCannon

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:372 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, jazz, Toni Morrison, UnCannon ·
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