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Cover of the Faber edition of Selected Poems by Robert Graves

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Selected Poems by Robert Graves

February 1, 2020 by tiny_bookbot 2 Comments

With 1917 potentially poised for success at the Oscars, it feels like a good moment to look at the work of a WWI poet, namely that of Robert Graves. Now, I didn’t read his Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, edited by Northern Irish poet Michael Longley) because of the film. If anything, it’s the other way around: I saw 1917 because I am teaching Graves’s poetry this semester to an upper-level class of English majors, and I was curious as to how well the film supplemented the poetry of […]

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tiny_bookbot's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: robert graves ·
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Agatha Christie’s ugly, beautiful, unimportant, and interesting truths

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

January 7, 2020 by tiny_bookbot 2 Comments

While I’ve read quite a number of detective novels and murder mysteries, I realized in the past year that the work of the “Queens of Crime” (Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh) was a significant gap in my knowledge, with the exception of Dorothy Sayers–even though I’ve watched almost every available episode of David Suchet’s Poirot productions. (Those adaptations were–and I mean this as warm praise–just about the only way I fell asleep every night when I was on the academic job […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: agatha christie

tiny_bookbot's CBR12 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: agatha christie ·
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West Coast Magical Noir

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

January 6, 2020 by tiny_bookbot 1 Comment

Sarah Gailey’s Magic for Liars is a magical noir in two ways: it’s magical in the sense of being addictive and transporting, and it’s also magical in the more straightforward sense, which is to say, it’s a noir in which most of the characters are, indeed, mages. Ivy Gamble, who has spent her life feeling inadequate compared to her magically-gifted sister, Tabitha, has turned into the hard-drinking, hard-living PI of the noir tradition–and, in keeping with predecessors like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Ivy lives in […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Sarah Gailey

tiny_bookbot's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Sarah Gailey ·
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