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Happy Birthday. Your thirteenth is important. Maybe your first really public day.

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

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A book that certainly delivers upon the promise of its title. I remember a few years ago when Adelle Waldman’s The Affairs of Nathaniel P. came out and we were meant to take it as a savage takedown of fuckboi culture, and then when I read it, not only did I not think that Nate was all that bad, I didn’t see the book as a takedown so much as reading the shift in the educated, white, Liberal masculinity in urban spaces. This book is most definitely more of that takedown. I wonder if we have a case of takes one to […]

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12/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:672 |

Okay I love short stories now

How Long Till Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin

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It really has taken me this long to get short stories so god bless my library because I never would have gotten here without it. I’d been anti-short story because I missed the novel-length follow through on plots or people or places, but I’m now pro-short story because I can pick up a book at any time, read a chapter, and then put it away for however long I want. Not that I’d want to do that with this book because Jemisin is like GRRM for me in that I would read her grocery list and marvel at the gift I’d been […]

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11/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:98 |

There’s a Reason for Every Relationship

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li

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A collection of ten short stories, this is a poignant and honest look at the lives of utterly ordinary people that play out in front of cultural constraints and political intrusions. Topics like the relationship between husband and wife, filial duty, the families that we make ourselves, and the societal expectations that put shackles on even the most human experiences are explored in a somber but touching way. Almost all of these stories are amazing, and it’s hard for me to pick a favourite. The most obvious front-runner is a story that links the practice of having eunuchs as servants […]

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11/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:57 |

After finishing it, I’m okay with the price I paid

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

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I had this on my Amazon wishlist after seeing it reviewed somewhere (maybe ElCicco’s review from 2016?) and promptly forgot about it.  Then I went to visit the Dollar Tree (the best dollar store chain in NJ, and you can fight me on that) and what do I see but a very familiar cover.  I was surprised to see an actual (hardcover) book in the dollar store that I actually had intended to buy at some point, so I snatched it up!   This is a book of short stories revolving around the theme of keys.  It is also not what […]

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10/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:70 |

“She would’ve been a good woman,” said The Misfit, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” (Bingo!)

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

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This is my first O’Connor, which seems strange as a Catholic raised in the American South (maybe if I had gone to a catholic school?) and it is both fascinating and darkly comic, which I don’t know that I was ready for. O’Connor is asking the reader what does it mean to be good? What does it mean to be moral? Those questions are the heart of A Good Man is Hard to Find, and then doubled down by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to […]

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10/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:53 |

Bingo #3 With a Banned Short Story

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

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In a bit of bingo logistics, I decided a couple short stories might be in order to fill in as many remaining squares as I could. With that in mind I went down the list of things I’ve been meaning to read anyway and came across “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson which has quite the history of making people question its place in front of readers at all. What I didn’t know was just how short it really is – its only 3,773 words long! But, as I sat reading the story that has been credited with spawning so many […]

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10/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:51 |

You probably don’t want this, actually.

You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian

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Remember ‘Cat Person’? The viral short story published in The New Yorker last year that literally everyone you know sent to you with the message ‘Oh my god, you HAVE to read this!’? Well the author, Kristen Roupenian, has published a collection of short stories with the tempting title ‘You Know You Want This’. I heard about the book via a podcast interview with the author herself. It centered on Roupenian’s shock and amazement at the juggernaut that Cat Person became, and her new book which I was surprised to hear had a significant focus on the horror genre. Like […]

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10/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

A parody of classic fairy tales for the modern feminist

Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling: And Other Feminist Fairy Tales by Laura Lane

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Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling: And Other Feminist Fairy Tales looked like a short book. I figured, as I knew the original tales, this would be an easy read for the night. In fact, most likely would be able to finish that evening. Comedy team Laura Lane and Ellen Haun created a funny, but we know these feminist stories. Cinderella does not need the prince to take her out of poverty. It is Rapunzel’s choice to shave areas of her body or not. It is all about consent, even when a princess has been asleep for hundreds of years.  Yet […]

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10/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:448 |


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