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Finishing 2022 with a Great Read

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

December 31, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Whew, what a book- in a good way. I had started and abandoned this book multiple times, never getting past the first chapter. That first chapter featured a character named Sasha, who had problematic kleptomaniac tendencies and I found her so unlikeable that I couldn’t get past chapter one. Reader, I wasn’t wrong BUT things got So.Much.Better. As I was reading this I kept thinking about how I would describe it, as its not a straightforward narrative, either chronologically or in terms of whose story […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a visit from the goon squad, Jennifer Egan

Wanderlustful's CBR14 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a visit from the goon squad, Jennifer Egan ·
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It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel.

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Jeff Buckey's Grace (33 1/3) by Daphne A Brooks

Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over of the Sea (33 1/3) by Kim Cooper

July 28, 2020 by vel veeter 1 Comment

CBR12Bingo – Music This is a three parter.   A Visit from the Goon Squad – 3/5 Stars This book has the honor of being the very first book I ever got from Audible. I got it when it won the 2010 National Book Award and I think that audiobook is the best format for this novel as well. The novel is a series of narrative and short stories linked together thematically around music from the 1970s through some unclear point in the near future. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: a visit from the goon squad, Daphne A Brooks, Jennifer Egan, Kim Cooper

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:416 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: a visit from the goon squad, Daphne A Brooks, Jennifer Egan, Kim Cooper ·
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A Visit from the Goon Squad – A study in character development

A Visit form the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

May 17, 2019 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

I’m a bit late to this 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner but those prize giver outters definitely know their stuff. Egan’s work is true mastery of character development and a triumph of the non-linear form. It seems there is little method to her madness, as she jumps to different characters, and different points in history. At times you are puzzled as to how someone relates to the story, and you learn that they used to work for a main character, or a former flame, etc. It’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a visit from the goon squad, audio, Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize

cheerbrarian's CBR11 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a visit from the goon squad, audio, Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize ·
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