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I want to read more older things and British things this year, and some that are both. Oh and I’ll probably end up reading a bunch of Italian and French writers this year too. I think.

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You are my life now

Twlight by Stephanie Meyer

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CBR11Bingo – Not My Wheelhouse So when I thought about what kind of book would really count as a not my wheelhouse kind of thing, financial analysis, self-help books, math books, hard science texts are more or less what comes to mind. But I really didn’t want to read those. So instead, I picked what I would maybe consider as far removed from my wheelhouse in terms of fiction (other than hard-right military bullshit, which I didn’t feel like, because I didn’t want to get angry, or pulpy Christian books for similar reasons). So paranormal teen romance it is! And […]

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7/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:413 |

They hang people for murder, and while I didn’t exactly like Mummy, she was my mother after all.

Farthing by Jo Walton

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Maybe it’s just me, but I really didn’t like this book. It’s not unpleasant or anything. That’s not the issue here. It just feels false. So the book takes place in an alternative history Unite Kingdom in 1949. Rather than “what if Nazis” won the war, though it seems like maybe they kind of did, the novel wonders, what would happen in appeasement were taken to its logical conclusion and a binding peace accord were struck with Germany in 1939/1940 after Dunkirk? Ostensibly, I am on board for all this. The novel then is a murder-mystery that takes place within […]

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7/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:412 |

What is the impact of not being valued? How do you measure the loss of what a human being does not receive?

When they call you a terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullers and Asha Bandele

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CBR11Bingo – True Story This is book is both a lot of what I thought it would be and a little surprising in other ways. I initially avoided it, not because I didn’t think it would be good, but because I am not always ready to dive into a book in which my privilege and place in the world are actively interrogated. But once I got going, I was interested in the ways in which this book is a full-throated defense of existing and being alive, and certainly an indictment of white supremacy, but so actively engaged in love and […]

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7/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:411 |

Weak knees? Not any more.

They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall

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CBR11Bingo – Remix So this is a direct remix of the Agatha Christie novel And then there were None. We know this (so sorry about the spoilers) because Rachel Howzell Hall directly quotes a part of that novel in the epigraph for this novel. But it’s not just that: it also flirts with being a remix of Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game and even more lightly flirts with being a little bit Terry McMillan’s How Stella Got her Groove Back. So the biggest difference between Howzell Hall’s book and Christie’s is that our protagonist is also the narrator and well, […]

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7/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:410 |

It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it.

King Solomon's Mines by HR Haggard

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CBR11Bingo – School So the connection to Bingo here is that when I first got to grad school, I was a TA for a Children’s Lit class that mostly focused on the kinds of writing that Victorian children would have been exposed to in their childhood, when the concept of children’s writing was pretty slim in general. This book is an interesting artifact and an interesting historical text in terms of seeing what kinds of cultural teaching was happening through literature, especially as a time (the late 1880s) when literature was the absolute king of cultural product. But that said, […]

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7/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:409 |

There will always be people who will slash open the other cheek when it is turned to them.

The Game by AS Byatt

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This is an early, actually very early novel by the writer AS Byatt. She was only about 30 when she wrote this, and it’s about two sisters, a writer and a literary critic, who find themselves reconnected in their late 30s after a few years apart because of the various circumstances of their lives. Julia, the writer, is looking for inspiration for her new novel, one in which she wished to greatly interrogate the interorities of domestic space. Her sister, Cassandra, has found herself invited to a help produce and work on a television program centered on contemporary criticism. This […]

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7/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:408 |

A few weeks after my tenth birthday I was sent to stay with some horsey relations in Leicestershire.

The Skin Chairs by Barbara Comyns

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This is a 1962 novel by Barbara Comyns, who I previously read and reviewed for Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, which had a creepy and detached air, with a sinister and sardonic underbelly. This book still has a darkness to it, but there’s also more heart to it. We meet Frances on one of her most interesting and horrifying days, the day who father dies. She is lost for words on this day because she had just seen something so alluring and awful, a set of six chairs made from the skins of six men killed in the […]

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7/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:407 |

How we slice the skin

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

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CBR11Bingo – Rainbow Flag This novel was recently released and it reminds in some direct ways of other Florida writers. The most obvious connection would be to Karen Russell’s Swamplandia, a novel I really disliked, but by way of Harry Crews, a writer who I have mixed feelings about, but have enjoyed a few of his books. This book has some clear strengths, and some unfortunate weaknesses. There’s a lot to the context of the story. We are dealing with our narrator Jessa-Lynn, who finds her father’s dead body in the family taxidermy shop. He has died from suicide. She […]

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7/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:406 |


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