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I'm a special education teacher by day and a reader by most other hours. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Booktrovert's Quick Questions interview.)

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“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

Out There by Kate Folk

November 2, 2023 by booktrovert 2 Comments

“If you feel alone in the world find someone to worship you” Henry Hoke invites us into the mind of a philosophical mountain lion in this brief novel. The prose is straightforward – each line a brief thought that flows into the next. No punctuation slowing down the reader, just the musings of a queer mountain lion yearning to understand his own urges. He is aware of his potential for violence – it is part of his origin story. That potential is a throbbing heartbeat […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Henry Hoke, Kate Folk

booktrovert's CBR15 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Henry Hoke, Kate Folk ·
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Is anything ever only one thing?

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

October 22, 2023 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

Few authors are as adept at articulating characters through their relationship with a place as James McBride. His latest novel centers on a community known as Chicken Hill in Pennsylvania, the home of the titular Heaven and Earth grocery store. We are transported to various points in this community’s history, but most of the story takes place in the late 1930s. One of my biggest issues with the novel was the number of digressions – they serve a purpose! They allow us to fall deeply […]

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booktrovert's CBR15 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: James McBride ·
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Three Mysteries for a Cozy Spooky Season

Still Life by Louise Penny

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

October 22, 2023 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

October seems to be flying by – suddenly, the weather is cool enough for sweaters most days, the electricity bill is FINALLY declining, and we are seeing ghosts and pumpkins everywhere. The October Vibe is always welcome – I love the early part of the end of the year, which is both more macabre and somehow less melancholy than the upcoming holiday season. I often try to read something vaguely spooky for October – but rarely do I get it just right. Two years ago, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Anthony Horowitz, kate racculia, Louise Penny

booktrovert's CBR15 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Anthony Horowitz, kate racculia, Louise Penny ·
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“Grief is not the door that tucks you in; it’s the door that shuts you out.”

Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter

October 9, 2023 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

Terrace Story – which I consistently want to call Terrace House, which doesn’t make any sense at all, but there are brains for you – Terrace Story is a moving puzzle box of a novel. It’s short enough that you can whip through it in a single afternoon, if you’d like – but there no need to rush this. In fact, there’s so much more to appreciate, so many callbacks packed into such a short space – it’s almost as if this book about bending […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Hilary Leichter

booktrovert's CBR15 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Hilary Leichter ·
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“But then, all children come to hold grudges against their progenitors … Although I have made monsters, I have also performed miracles.”

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

October 9, 2023 by booktrovert 2 Comments

Every time I try to watch The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 version, as I am an elder millennial, an “Oregon Trail” generation child) all I want is for that movie to be good. It had promise, didn’t it? And yet, each incomprehensible scene devolves into a farce, and anyway I haven’t stayed up long enough to watch a complete movie in several years. I may put it on again tonight, because even if the end is terrible I won’t even be awake to see […]

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booktrovert's CBR15 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: silvia moreno-garcia ·
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I gave Cork O’Connor a try … turns out, I’m just not that into him

Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger

October 1, 2023 by booktrovert 5 Comments

William Kent Krueger seems to be very popular among many bookish folks that I generally respect. I have heard so much praise for his most recent novel, This Tender Land, and his Cork O’Connor series has been fairly positively reviewed. I imagined him to be a bit like Peter Heller, whose writing is strongly impacted by nature. A thriller with a sense of justice, and a more literary bent than, say, your average Grisham. I’ll pause here to say that there was a time in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: William Kent Krueger

booktrovert's CBR15 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: William Kent Krueger ·
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