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Sigh. This Could Have Been More.

My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul

March 18, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

I’m sure it won’t come as a shock to anyone here on Goodreads/Cannonball that many of us love to keep track, one way or another, of what we read, not to mention write about it.  So I was expecting a bit more, I must say.  Bob (or Book of Books), is a dated list of what Paul has read.  But that is literally it.  No authors’ names, no plot summaries, no ratings, no impressions, no thoughts of any kind about each book.  Sure, there a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Book catalogue, Book discussions, Pamela Paul, Priveleged Upbringing, Teen travels through Europe

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:9 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Book catalogue, Book discussions, Pamela Paul, Priveleged Upbringing, Teen travels through Europe ·
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Not My Flavor

The Flanders Road by Claude Simon

March 13, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

OK, let me just put this out there. Unconstructed prose is not my jam. Page after page with no structure, no punctuation, no paragraphs, OK, no. Looking at you James Joyce. Dubliners? Love. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man? Well OK. Finnigan’s Wake? OK, now we having issues. Ulysses? Oooohhh no. So I feel guilty about not giving this a better rating because it is not my cup of tea, but I suspect it is well written. Generally when I give a 1 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Benelux history, claude simon, French history, Paragraph and punctution free, Repetitive relationships, stream of consciousness, Trench warfare, WWI and WWII

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Benelux history, claude simon, French history, Paragraph and punctution free, Repetitive relationships, stream of consciousness, Trench warfare, WWI and WWII ·
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You Don’t Always Get What You Want

On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks

March 2, 2023 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

Alas, this was not the Green Dolphin I was looking for.  There is a jazz standard by this name that I love, and I know it was featured in a movie, based on a novel of the same name.  Well, almost the same name.  What I was looking for was Green Dolphin Street, based on an historical novel set in New Zealand.  So imagine my surprise when I pick up the book I had ordered from the library, and see the cover featuring a mid-century […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: 1950s into 1960s, London, New York City, Nixon-Kennedy presidential campaign, politics, Sebastian Faulks, SO much drinking OMG, tourist time in NYC, Washington DC

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: 1950s into 1960s, London, New York City, Nixon-Kennedy presidential campaign, politics, Sebastian Faulks, SO much drinking OMG, tourist time in NYC, Washington DC ·
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Romeo and Juliet, California Style

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson

February 10, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

There were two old school romances I adored as a teen.  One, reread not too long ago, was Lorna Doone.  And the other was, spoiler, Ramona.  As a SoCal girl, how could I not?  I was very familiar with the locations and history.  As a matter of fact, one of my sons got married at the Rancho Camulos, where the story begins.  It’s a historical site, but since it was owned by the same family until the mid-20th century, it’s a perfect hodge-podge of various […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: Actually historically legit, CBR15Passport, Classic Californio. So romantic OMG, Helen Hunt Jackson, Indigenous Americans, Old California, Rancho living, You WILL cry

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: Actually historically legit, CBR15Passport, Classic Californio. So romantic OMG, Helen Hunt Jackson, Indigenous Americans, Old California, Rancho living, You WILL cry ·
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Been sleeping on this guy. Even Madonna beat me to it.

Gold by Rumi

February 2, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

A great first meeting story.  The year was 1244, when Rumi met Shams in a bazaar in Konya, Persia.  Rumi was a young scholar, and Shams, about twenty years older, was a wandering free thinker.  They got to discussing literature, and Shams challenged Rumi to find his own voice.  Over the course of two years of traveling together, Rumi did just that, and produced sixty five thousand some verses.  This book samples that work. I first ran into his name whilst reading a book on […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: 19th century, CBR15Passport, Konya (Persia), Persia, Pure joy, rumi, Sufi mystic

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: 19th century, CBR15Passport, Konya (Persia), Persia, Pure joy, rumi, Sufi mystic ·
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Alas, Not As Fun As the Last One, Still Can’t Go Wrong with PM.

The Case of the Crooked Candle by Earle Stanley Gardner

January 21, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Quick question for any of you nautical types out there.  You can see from the title that a key clue involves a candle.  Said candle has been burning in an interior cabin on a small yacht, completely unattended for a period of time.  Is this a thing, even in the 1940s?  Seriously, Gardner?  Aren’t those vessels infamously, well, woody?  SMH. OK, aside from blatant safety violations, this case had to do with a lot of trotting back and forth along the Ventura coastline, with the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: 1940s, California specific mysteries, Can't forget Paul and Della!, Earle Stanley Gardner, perry mason, Series #24

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: 1940s, California specific mysteries, Can't forget Paul and Della!, Earle Stanley Gardner, perry mason, Series #24 ·
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