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I teach literature to college kids in the Midwest. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: tiny_bookbot's Quick Questions interview.)

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“every death is significant, even when every life appears not to be”

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

January 7, 2023 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

I am exhausted: extremely jet-lagged and just submitted materials for my first major deadline of 2023. So what better to do than to review the last book I read in 2022 (finished at approximately 9:30 PM on New Year’s Eve, yes I know how to party), the Booker Prize-winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida? 2022 was actually my best year when it comes to attacking the Booker longlist; I read three of the nominees, and all of them were really excellent novels, in extremely divergent ways. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Booker prize, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lanka

tiny_bookbot's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Booker prize, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lanka ·
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matrimony, murder, and black market mischief in post-war London

The Right Sort of Man by Allison Montclair

October 23, 2022 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo: Series (Sparks & Bainbridge Mysteries #1) I needed some new, lighter mysteries to get me through the dwindling days of early autumn. This popped up in my library recommendations, and since there’s a few of them to work through, I figured I’d give it a try. While there’s no shortage of books set during WWII, there are fewer that actually work through the aftermath of the war, which is its own very distinctive setting. The war is over and won, but London is still in tatters […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Allison Montclair, cbr14bingo

tiny_bookbot's CBR14 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Allison Montclair, cbr14bingo ·
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“I want you to see me. That’s why I shine like this.”

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

October 15, 2022 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo: Recommended When I was in the early days of my summer of Irish fiction, I visited a couple friends in DC and one of them passed off her copy of this novel to me. “When you get a moment, I think you’ll like it. It’s an easy read, but not a dumb one–more like where you feel better at the end of it.” Since I read plenty of serious and/or bleak stuff, I’m always grateful for a recommendation like that, but it took me […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Durian Sukegawa

tiny_bookbot's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Durian Sukegawa ·
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Saxon sisters in post-Roman Britain

Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott

October 13, 2022 by tiny_bookbot 2 Comments

CBR Bingo: Question Most historical fiction set in England involves a few specific historical time periods: the high/late medieval era (think Chaucer or Thomas Malory), the Elizabethan era, the Victorian era, WWI and WWII. But the early medieval period (the time we once might’ve been used to calling “the Dark Ages”) is less popular, though there have been standout novels set in the era (Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, Rosemary Sutcliffe’s novels such as Sword of Sunset, Bernard Cornwell’s Warlord Chronicles). This period of flux following the Roman withdrawal from […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Rebecca Stott

tiny_bookbot's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: cbr14bingo, Rebecca Stott ·
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“To die like the skylark”

The Slain Birds by Michael Longley

October 13, 2022 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo: Bird I joked a couple years ago that the best day is Wake Forest Press Book Club Day, in part because you never know when it’s going to happen. Wake Forest Press focuses on publishing Irish poetry, particularly the Irish poets who aren’t, say, Seamus Heaney or Eavan Boland and claimed by a Big Five publisher. Because it’s a small operation, books come out a bit irregularly and also during the pandemic, shipments were sometimes oddly spaced (I once got three volumes all […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, irish poetry, Michael Longley, poetry

tiny_bookbot's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, irish poetry, Michael Longley, poetry ·
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“to each was given days and chances which wouldn’t come back around”

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

September 17, 2022 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo: Cold Well, the semester started, and away with it went my brain, or at least the part of it I use for writing. Still! I’ve been reading! So time to eke out a review or two before I crumble. Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These came to my attention along with Audrey Magee’s The Colony when it was long listed for the Booker Prize. Magee didn’t make the shortlist, but Keegan did, and Small Things Like These has the honor of being the shortest novel to ever […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Claire Keegan

tiny_bookbot's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Claire Keegan ·
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