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Elder LOTR/Holmes fan girl/writer since forever. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: elderberrywine's Quick Questions interview.)

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24 Hours of Dark? Hey, Let’s Paaarty!

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

December 28, 2022 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Well this was an odd duck.  Weiner, a former correspondent for NPR, decides to check out the common lists for happiest nations on Earth (circa 2008) to see if, indeed, are they?  Some names generally Scandinavian) crop up all the time, and others are less common.  And for good measure, he tossed in one at the opposite end of the spectrum (Moldovia).  I suspect it’s even more grim these days.  Using his skills and connections as a foreign correspondent, he questioned local officials, academics, psychiatrists, […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Eric Weiner, I'm with the Moldovian Babushka - "Feevty-feevty", People are different everywhere, travel, What makes a contry tick?, What makes a country happy?

elderberrywine's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Eric Weiner, I'm with the Moldovian Babushka - "Feevty-feevty", People are different everywhere, travel, What makes a contry tick?, What makes a country happy? ·
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Days Slip Into Days

Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev

December 20, 2022 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Turgenev’s Fathers and Children comes from that lush mid-19th century literary period in Russian literature that also includes the authors Gogol (Dead Souls) and my favorite, Goncharov (Oblomov, in which we spend 500 pages with the world’s laziest man).  There are more famous authors in this period, but they don’t appeal to me the way these three do. There is something soothing about the slow pace of life in these books that really appeals to me.  The protagonists are members of the lesser aristocracy, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: 19th century Russian lit, family relationships, Ivan Turgenev, life in the counrty, mellow vibes, some philosophical discusions, wasn't ready for that ending

elderberrywine's CBR14 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: 19th century Russian lit, family relationships, Ivan Turgenev, life in the counrty, mellow vibes, some philosophical discusions, wasn't ready for that ending ·
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Pandesal? Mmm, Tell Me More

Arsenic and Adobe by Mia P. Manansala

December 7, 2022 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

One of the cozy cooking type mysteries, I must knock it down a star because although our girl is charged with murder right out of the gate, there honestly is no danger of anyone buying that.  Lila Macapagal is back home from Chicago and is temporarily helping out in her Tita Rosie’s Filipino restaurant.  Unfortunately Derek Winter, a food critic who has been writing nasty reviews all over town, including her auntie’s, takes a face plant into his dessert, poisoned.  The dessert which Lila had […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: arsenic and adobo, cozy mystery, filipino food, In a small town high school drama is forever, lgbtq characters, Mia P. Manansala, Other types of cuisine

elderberrywine's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: arsenic and adobo, cozy mystery, filipino food, In a small town high school drama is forever, lgbtq characters, Mia P. Manansala, Other types of cuisine ·
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What Comes Around Goes Around

The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen

November 28, 2022 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

When this book was written, in 2006, it was more of a historical look at the unpopular WWI draft and the worldwide influenza epidemic that occurred simultaneously towards the end of the war.  Reading it now, some 16 years later, it is far more difficult reading.  No longer is it simply an historic exercise, but is far more fraught.  And I might add this came off a list of mine of books to read and I really had no idea what I was getting into.  […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Health, History Tagged With: influenza, thomas mullen, Washington state, Who knew, Written well before current events, WWI draft

elderberrywine's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Health, History · Tags: influenza, thomas mullen, Washington state, Who knew, Written well before current events, WWI draft ·
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Ghosts of Every Flavor

Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season by ed. Tanya Kirk

November 18, 2022 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

So this is probably very American of me, but I did not realize, Dickens Christmas Carol notwithstanding, that ghost stories are apparently a British Christmas tradition.  Hereabouts, Halloween is the spooky season.  But here we have a collection of late 19th and early 20th century ghostly tales culled from the British Library. By and large this is a fairly amiable collection of ghosts.  They have Reasons to visit the living, mostly along the lines of unfinished business, but aren’t actively looking to harm anyone.  Belief […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Also a bit of Lovecraft even though he was American?, British ghost tales, ed. Tanya Kirk, historical tales, Jerome K. Jerome, late 19th and early 20th century

elderberrywine's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: Also a bit of Lovecraft even though he was American?, British ghost tales, ed. Tanya Kirk, historical tales, Jerome K. Jerome, late 19th and early 20th century ·
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This Series Is Growing On Me

The Private Patient by P. D. James

November 10, 2022 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

cbr14 series This is the second Adam Dalgleish mystery by James I’ve read now, and I do enjoy the set-up.  Essentially, it’s a closed box mystery, a la Agatha Christie, where you know that the perpetrator is one of a certain set of suspects, and the fun is figuring out who.  The Commander in charge, Dalgleish, has a couple of subordinates as his team, and they are called in only for high profile hush-hush cases.  Nothing happens overnight, for they are dealing with wealthy and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Agatha Christie adjacent, British mystery, cbr14 series, P.D. James, Probably should have gone with NHS

elderberrywine's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Agatha Christie adjacent, British mystery, cbr14 series, P.D. James, Probably should have gone with NHS ·
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