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Kneeling in the fragrant moist grass of the village green Clara Morrow carefully hid the Easter egg and thought about raising the dead, which she planned to do right after supper.

The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

The Last Colony by John Scalzi

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque

My Mum is a Twat by Anoushka Warden

Bella Bella by Harvey Fierstein

Intimations by Zadie Smith

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton

Leviathan by Paul Auster

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Light of Day by Eric Ambler

Omeros by Derek Walcott

Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Rumble Fish by SE Hinton

Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani

August 19, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Cruelest Month – 3/5 Stars This is the third Louise Penny “Inspector Gamache” detective novel, and I think it’s a decided dip in quality from an overarching look at it. The mystery itself, quaint, small town, punctuated with poetry and art and other little considerations is perfectly interesting. At a seance, from a combination of fright and maybe poisoning, a woman is found dead. There must be an elaborate set of circumstances to come to pass to have her die, but if they were […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: A Princess of Mars, all quiet on the western front, Anoushka Warden, becoming abigail, bella bella, Chris Abani, Derek Walcott, Edgar Rice Burroughs, eric ambler, Erich Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Harvey Fierstein, humiliated and insulted, intimations, john le carré, john scalzi, leviathan, Louise Penny, Michael Crichton, my mum is a twat, omeros, Paul Auster, rumble fish, SE Hinton, The Cruelest Month, the last colony, the light of day, the old man and the sea, the spy who came in from the cold, the terminal man, Zadie Smith

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:456 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: A Princess of Mars, all quiet on the western front, Anoushka Warden, becoming abigail, bella bella, Chris Abani, Derek Walcott, Edgar Rice Burroughs, eric ambler, Erich Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Harvey Fierstein, humiliated and insulted, intimations, john le carré, john scalzi, leviathan, Louise Penny, Michael Crichton, my mum is a twat, omeros, Paul Auster, rumble fish, SE Hinton, The Cruelest Month, the last colony, the light of day, the old man and the sea, the spy who came in from the cold, the terminal man, Zadie Smith ·
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Short story review dump (Part II)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Little Man by Michael Cunningham

Escape from New York by Zadie Smith

Alan Bean Plus Four by Tom Hanks

Miss Marple Tells a Story by Agatha Christie

Accident by Agatha Christie

February 21, 2020 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (5 stars) Published in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper tells the story of a woman, the narrator, suffering from depression. The treatment imposed on her by her husband is bed rest, and she is largely confined to a room with Yellow Wallpaper. Instead of easing her turmoil, deeper psychological issues manifest, and she is eventually driven mad by the confinement. This is an utterly haunting depiction of mental illness compounded by a deeply patriarchal society that sought to protect […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, charlotte perkins gilman, Michael Cunningham, Tom Hanks, Zadie Smith

ingres77's CBR12 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, charlotte perkins gilman, Michael Cunningham, Tom Hanks, Zadie Smith ·
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Who would expect the Embassy of Cambodia?

The Embassy of Cambodia by Zadie Smith

October 31, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a short return to the setting of her novel NW, about Northwest London. I liked the novel a lot when I read it for reasons I can’t entirely explain, but my throughline is how well she represents a number of different characters and their voices and experiences in a way that doesn’t feel pandering. A kind of writerly conservatism that allows her to understand form and language in traditional ways, and a more personal liberalism that allows her to understand representation. This short return […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: the embassy of cambodia, Zadie Smith

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:599 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: the embassy of cambodia, Zadie Smith ·
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There is an old cliche about street life: you leave, the streets follow.

Grand Union by Zadie Smith

October 15, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a collection of short stories by Zadie Smith, collected from the last six years or so. Given her primary status as a novelist, the length of time this collection covers, and the relative thinness of this collection, this comes through as an odds and ends collection replete with a handful of more experimental works. I generally like Zadie Smith novels, with only one I don’t think is very good, one which is better, but less good, and the rest being quite good, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: grand union, Zadie Smith

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:570 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: grand union, Zadie Smith ·
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I am not smart enough for this book

Feel Free by Zadie Smith

January 7, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

Last year, I read a number of books of short stories and reiterated in each review that short stories aren’t really my thing. I like a lot of plot to sink my teeth into and by and large, I don’t get that from short stories. Doesn’t mean they’re bad, just means they’re not for me. I get Zadie Smith’s Feel Free and somehow just completely missed the part where it says “essays” on the front cover. So like short stories, but non fiction. I very nearly gave […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Zadie Smith

lowercasesee's CBR11 Review No:5 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Zadie Smith ·
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Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone

November 23, 2018 by tillie Leave a Comment

Changing my mind is an essay collection by Zadie Smith. There is a new one out called Free, this is the one she wrote before Free, (back when Obama was still president. This fact will depress you). The collection of essays is a mix between articles, lectures and auto-biographical snippets. As far as essay-collections go this is a pretty mixed bag. It deals both with authors, film, her father, and her blackness. “Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, changing my mind, essays, Mathildehoeg, underrepresented, Zadie Smith

tillie's CBR10 Review No:42 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, changing my mind, essays, Mathildehoeg, underrepresented, Zadie Smith ·
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