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What I’ve been reading since the last time I posted a bunch of books

Legacy of Conquest by Patricia Limerick

You are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

Prisoner without a Name Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman

Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis

Forever Flowing by Vasily Grossman

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

September 24, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Legacy of Conquest – 5/5 Stars Not the most exciting audiobook I could have listened to, but a very worthwhile overview of not only American Western history but also historiography of the field too. Patricia Limerick was at the time a historian working in a Western American university. She tells a story of a colleague getting a job with a Southern university and he declares that he should learn a little Southern history to supplement his expertise. She asks him if he learned Western history […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Poetry Tagged With: adam haslett, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Don Marquis, Jacobo Timerman, Patricia Limerick, Vasily Grossman

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:400 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Poetry · Tags: adam haslett, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Don Marquis, Jacobo Timerman, Patricia Limerick, Vasily Grossman ·
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Assorted Short Fiction II

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones

The AI Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

Yard Work by David Koepp

Anonymous by Uzodinma Iweala

There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed by Edgar Cantero

The Remedy by Adam Haslett

Falls the Shadow by Skip Horack

Screwball by Simon Rich

The Beckoning Fair One by Dan Chaon

Q&A by Ben Winters

Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

Decorum at the Deathbed by Josh Malerman

April 2, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Night of the Mannequins – 3/5 Stars – Stephen Graham Jones This is a newish novella from Stephen Graham Jones that you’ll have to roll with the bad title and go with it because it does some very interesting things. It has a significant flaw by the end, and the way I will describe that is that it either doesn’t trust the audience or trust itself to make the more interesting choice. The plot involves a group of teenagers, friends and frenemies, who friend works […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adam haslett, Alfred Uhry, Alyssa Cole, Ben Winters, Dan Chaon, David Koepp, Edgar Cantero, josh malerman, simon rich, Skip Horack, Stephen Graham Jones, Susan Glaspell, uzodinma iweala

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:142 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adam haslett, Alfred Uhry, Alyssa Cole, Ben Winters, Dan Chaon, David Koepp, Edgar Cantero, josh malerman, simon rich, Skip Horack, Stephen Graham Jones, Susan Glaspell, uzodinma iweala ·
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A not 100% dreary book about suicide and mental health issues

April 22, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Adam Haslett was sort of an award season darling 15 years ago for a really good collection of short stories called You are Not a Stranger Here. It’s really quite good. His novels have not landed as successfully, until now. This is such a strong novel. It’s kind of like what if Jonathan Franzen were capable of pathos. This is the story of a kind of middle-class, kind of strange, kind of fucked up family from Boston, by way of England, who as they grow up […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adam haslett, imagine me gone

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:183 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adam haslett, imagine me gone ·
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