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Funny she fixes feminine problems now, when she was my problem then.

Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

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CBR10Bingo – Covers Here’s the covers I found:   Anyway, I misunderstood the title of the book every single time I read it until the audiobook narrator said it for me. I was eyeing this one for awhile and I am a little leery of story collections because so many times they are treated as a means to an end, and so you either get the same story told a bunch of different times or you get stuff that’s very typical of the market. The first story corrected my error quickly. I recently saw Sorry to Bother You and going […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:318 |

I have lived ten years of wild rovings, of conquests and discoveries, in those woods; the day when I have to leave them my heart will be very heavy.

The Complete Claudine: Claudine at School, Claudine in Paris, Claudine Married, Claudine and Annie by Colette

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CBR10Bingo – This Old Thing? for Claudine at School CBR10Bingo – Dream Vacation for Claudine in Paris Claudine in School Book 1! from 1904 Man, French people are way more cool about sex than Americans are. This is not a surprise as most countries are way more cool about sex than Americans are. But this is a book that doesn’t just imply sex between characters, but heavily suggests it. And there’s very clearly sexual attraction and playfulness between school-age girls, and this book was widely popular. So, this is a book from 1904 and collects the fictionalized (or more so […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:317 |

It’s amazing how right you can be about a person you don’t know; it’s only the people you do know who confuse you

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

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CBR10Bingo – Alabama Pink I wasn’t around to know Alabama Pink in any way, but reading her post for this novel made me appreciate some version of the loss this community suffered. I was also glad to see this book on her list, because it’s a book I’ve owned for a while and feels like it always should have been up my alley, and for the most part it was. I have an affection loud-mouth American girls who refuse to act in according to social norms. It doesn’t always mean I like them, but I have an affection for them […]

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8/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:313 |

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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CBR10Bingo – Throwback Thursday (whoa it’s Thursday!) I think this was the last unread Kurt Vonnegut novel I read, when I read it about 15 years ago. It came out shortly before I first started reading Vonnegut when I was 14 or 15 and so it marked the first and last exposure to him as a living writer. I didn’t read for several years after. Also, along with Slaughterhouse 5, which I have read a half dozen times or so, this is the only Vonnegut I’ve reread. I still have three of his novels in secret reserve to read for […]

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8/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:312 |

There is no better place to keep a secret than in an unfinished novel

The Castle of Crossed Destinies; Nocturnes for the King of Naples; Oh What a Paradise it Seems; Love; The Incendiaries by Italo Calvino; Edmund White; John Cheever; Peter Nadas; R.O. Kwon.

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The Castle of Crossed Destinies – 2/5 Stars I knew it. I knew I was not going to like this one, and I made it about 20 pages in before I truly understood that the book was going to annoy. That’s a lot of annoying for a book that’s only 120 pages long. So the setup of this novel is that a group of people find themselves holed up in a tavern and unable to speak. This setup, which plays upon especially The Decameron, but also to some degree The Canterbury Tales, then goes on to where the various players […]

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8/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:311 |

This, after all, was Switzerland, where everything works; Switzerland, where trains run like clocks, and clocks run like watches, and watches are synchronous with the pulse of the universe; Switzerland

Le Place de la Corcorde Suisse; The Ivankiad; Black Klansman by John McPhee; Vladimir Voinovich; Ron Stallworth

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La Place de la Corcorde Suisse – 3/5 Stars This is an odd little book. Over all, I liked it, but it’s limited in its scope and appeal. John McPhee has written a long profile (likely an extension of a long-form essay/reportage) on the Swiss Army. He begins with the same kinds of assumptions probably most non-Swiss people have about the Army, that there’s a kind of in born joke to the whole thing, but then goes from there. The most important thing to say is that the Swiss, at least according to the book here, are very very serious […]

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8/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:306 |

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horse, The Crossing; Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

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CBR10Bingo – AND SO IT BEGINS and THIS IS THE END So this series of books came out in the 1990s and sort of represents a significant shift in Cormac McCarthy’s writing or more so signals the closing of the second phase of his writing and he moved toward the final section (depending on how much more he publishes — he’s pretty old). The first phase is more or less represented through his Tennessee novels. These novels are (simplistically) defined by working within the Southern Gothic sub-genre, or perhaps thinking through the novels as the “grotesque” or even “carnivalesque” to […]

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8/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:303 |

It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

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CBR10Bingo – Underrepresented I chose this book for “Underrepresented” more because of the content than the specific author. In this book, Wilkerson tells a narrative history of the Great Migration through a few different interwoven stories of participants in the movement collected through interviews, public records, and plenty of other documents and evidence. The Great Migration in simple terms is the mass migration of Southern African Americans to northern and western cities in the US primarily from about 1910-1950 or so. Wilkerson treats the migration less like a migration and more more like an immigration movement where the various groups […]

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8/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:300 |


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