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Final 2024 Leftovers

1876 by Gore Vidal

Joe Country by Mick Herron

James by Percival Everett

Slough House by Mick Herron

Kiss Her Goodbye by Allan Guthrie

The Contemplative Tarot: A Christian Introduction to the cards by Brittany Muller

December 26, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

Hope everyone had a wonderful 2024. Remember that while we can’t control the horrors of the world, there is joy to be found in the presence of those we love. 1876**** Didn’t hit as hard as Burr; Burr’s presence was the center of the story that made it go, whereas this book wants to highlight every major player in the 1876 election. But Vidal does a good job of evoking the atmosphere of the time: the unapologetic corruption, the paranoia of another war and the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1876, Allan Guthrie, Brittany Muller, christian, crime, Devotional, England, espionage, Gore Vidal, hard case crime, historical fiction, huckleberry Finn, James, Joe Country, Kiss Her Goodbye, mick herron, mystery, mysticism, Narratives of Empire, Percival Everett, politics, presidential election, Samuel Tilden, Satire, scotland, Slough House, Slough House series, Slow Horses, Tarot, The Contemplative Tarot, thriller, Voltaire

Jake's CBR16 Review No:195 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1876, Allan Guthrie, Brittany Muller, christian, crime, Devotional, England, espionage, Gore Vidal, hard case crime, historical fiction, huckleberry Finn, James, Joe Country, Kiss Her Goodbye, mick herron, mystery, mysticism, Narratives of Empire, Percival Everett, politics, presidential election, Samuel Tilden, Satire, scotland, Slough House, Slough House series, Slow Horses, Tarot, The Contemplative Tarot, thriller, Voltaire ·
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Adventure! True love! Sex with monkeys!

Candide by Voltaire

September 16, 2023 by KimMiE" 2 Comments

CBR15 BINGO: Europe, because Voltaire, he is very French It’s been so long since I read Candide that I can’t remember whether I was in high school or college at the time, yet the refrain, “Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” has been stuck in my head like a 1980s Mountain Dew commercial. So when I was looking for a good candidate for the Europe BINGO category, I thought, “Why not revisit Voltaire?” To sum up Candide, a young […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR15, cbr15bingo, classics, French fiction, KimMiE", Satire, Voltaire

KimMiE"'s CBR15 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR15, cbr15bingo, classics, French fiction, KimMiE", Satire, Voltaire ·
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Grab Bag

In Pharoah's Army by Tobias Wolff

Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka

Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

The Collected Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece Pancake

Child of God by Cormac Mccarthy

Candide by Voltaire

A Shropshire Lad by AE Housman

On Animals by Susan Orlean

The Facts by Philip Roth

July 7, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

In Pharoah’s Army -4/5 The second memoir by Tobias Wolff (known for A Boy’s Life too) but covering his time in Vietnam. This memoir reads a lot like a Vietnam novel — faint with memories, covering topics, and episodic. It’s hard not to compare it to Tim O’Brien’s The Things they Carried (a “novel”) and If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship me Home (a memoir). In those two books Tim O’Brien likes to hide. There’s a few moments where […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History Tagged With: AE Housman, Breece Pancake, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, gene wolfe, Geoff Dyer, Kōtarō Isaka, Mary Stewart, philip roth, Susan Orlean, Tobias Wolff, Voltaire

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:355 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History · Tags: AE Housman, Breece Pancake, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, gene wolfe, Geoff Dyer, Kōtarō Isaka, Mary Stewart, philip roth, Susan Orlean, Tobias Wolff, Voltaire ·
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