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The Time in Between by David Bergen

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Charles Boatman, an aging Vietnam veteran, returns to Vietnam to come to terms with his time as an American soldier in the Vietnam war.  When Charles disappears, his 27 year old daughter, Ada, and 25 year old son, Jon, make the trip themselves to try and find answers.  The novel flits back and forth between Charles’ story and Ada’s.  With Charles we get some of the fairly predictable elements for a Vietnam war novel- his time in Vietnam as young man, his marriage and how […]

On Your Honor

The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy

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Set in 1967 at a barely-fictionalized version of The Citadel, Conroy’s own alma mater, The Lords of Discipline follows indifferent cadet Will McLean and his friends through a turbulent senior year. After surviving their school’s infamously brutal plebe year, with it’s torturous sweat parties and constant harassment, Will and his three roommates are determined to graduate and wear their class ring with pride. Two of Will’s roommates are fairly stereotypical Italian-Americans from the Northeast, Mark Santoro and the meathead Dante “Pig” Pignetti, while the third […]

That’s what friends are for…. (CBR12Bingo 2: Friendship)

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

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I always enjoy reading Jodi Picoult books while I’m reading them, but after I’ve had a chance to think about them, I start having reservations. Usually because she writes about hot topics that feel a bit sensationalized, or because she writes about realistic situations that always wrap up a little too neatly. Or because she writes characters rather than people, if that makes sense. So I think I liked this book more than her past novels because while the characters are very much Book Characters, […]

Everybody said: so? As in so what?

Summer by Ali Smith

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The closing volume of the Seasons Quarter by Ali Smith. Arguably, this is the best or at least most impressive of the books, but I will get to that. The books are not sequels, so you can read them in any order. Instead, each novel focuses on a season (and things attached to that season) and generally try to capture the current moment (as of publication) while also trying to place things within broader contexts or connected thematic moments. So in this book, the absolute […]

He leaned forward, his breath the smell of whiskey drunk straight from the bottle.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Congo by Michael Crichton

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This is a reread for both of these books, but it’s also possible I never read Congo — I did see the movie on HBO while babysitting in like 1997 and it’s truly awful. The book is also, not great, but it is a lot better than the movie. Fight Club, of course, I read right after watching the movie. Fight Club – 4/5 Stars This book mostly still holds up. Like the movie, of course, the satire (WHICH IS NOT SUBTLE ACTUALLY) does not […]



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