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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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And maybe that’s ok.

Maybe in Another LIfe by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Another Taylor Jenkins Reid novel, and I’ve started seeing some cracks in the formula. One thing that Reid likes in her novels are those irrevocable choices and how they might split narratives based on which path was taken. This book takes that idea and runs with it. Hannah is back in town, recently out of a relationship with a married man, and testing the waters on her second night with her high school boyfriend. The novel splits on two fronts: she goes with him or she doesn’t. When she chooses not to go with him, she gets hit by a […]

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9/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:529 |

Memory oppresses me.

The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

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Book eight of a twelve book series if you count the later prequels, but book one in a four taken in publication order, this book throws you right in the deep end immediately. The language in this novel is archaic and esoteric feeling, and Gene Wolfe plays at the pretense that he is merely a translator of some sort of foreign tongue in an foreign land. This fantasy novel begins with Severian sneaking into a Necropolis, being chased, and earning his way into the ranks of journeymen torturers, a specialized guild that trains inquisitors and executioners, a kind of necessary […]

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9/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:528 |

But no one else seemed to want to vomit around her.

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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This novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid finds our narrator and protagonist in entirely unique, but oddly familiar situation. As in After I Do, we find our narrator facing down the most important decision of her life. After years and years of love and marriage, she has to decide whether or not the things she once wanted are what she still wants, now asked to decide again, in her her thirties. That’s the familiar part. The unique part is that Emma is engaged to Sam, who she knew as a teenage and who went out of her life for more than […]

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9/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:527 |

Nevermind that he is only a memo from the offices of fear.

At Blackwater Pond by Mary Oliver

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This is a small collection of Mary Oliver poems that the poet herself reads. Much of Mary Oliver poetry is like a set of minor meditations of a natural with life being pushed to forefront and the present manifesting. If you give yourself over to her poems, they act as tiny little moments of clarity. It’s much like the Robert Frost definition of poetry, and the effect can be incredibly calming, or at least stilling. This collection is a single disk audiobook version of the poems, and Mary Oliver is a solid, if not expressive reader, but it fits the […]

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9/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:526 |

Tell the truth!!!

Tell the Truth, BB Wolf. by Judy Sierra

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

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So this week I was working on instruction/assignment with twelfth grade English students…this is a mix of special ed and general ed students (as opposed to AP,Dual Enrollment, or Honors). We read and watched four different versions of the Three Little Pigs in order to try out some of the more probing literary analysis questions needed for breaking down texts into their different parts, and working toward figuring out how much interpretation we need to be doing as readers. This is an introductory activity and not designed to attack things like theme, motif, meaning etc.   So the two book […]

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9/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:525 |

He should have seen it coming.

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobsen

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Another book that won the Booker prize, this time in 2010, beating out Room by Emma Donoghue, Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey, C by Tom McCarthy, and books by Damon Galgut and Andrea Levy. I can’t help but wonder if this might be the least good book of the bunch, and arguably the worst book to have won the Booker Prize. It’s in the running for certain with Vernon God Little, How Late it Was How Late, The Old Devils, and let’s say, Last Orders to round things off. Anyway, it’s the story of three friends Finkler, […]

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9/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:523 |

They sat silently together.

Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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Wooof, this book. This is a relatively short book (270 pages), but the experience of reading this book is tasking, exhausting, and miring. Each chapter is a rough 25 or so pages of one long block of text. There’s sentences, but only one paragraph per chapter. And that’s before you get to the actual text. The story, similar to something like The Master and Margarita, is about a dying Hungarian town mired in Communism and human filth. A conman, maybe the devil, moves into and starts pulling levers. The characters, such as they are, are like Beckett and Kafka amorphous […]

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9/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:522 |

It was his only pause.

From a Buick 8 by Stephen King

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With a few exceptions, I didn’t read any Stephen King books that came out from about 2000-2009 or so until past 2010 when I moved back south. This is one of the books I missed as it came out, and it’s a curious book. Ostensibly the takes place in two main threads, the present and the past. In the present we are watching Ned Wilcox, surviving son of dead Pennsylvania State Trooper, hanging out at his father’s former post and slowly working his way into becoming a trainee dispatcher. It’s also clear that he’s looking for answers and connections related […]

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9/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:521 |


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