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The Last Gay Man on Earth by Ype Driessen

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CBR15Passport country The Last Gay Man on Earth is both too short and just the right length for reading. And while I did want more, I figure I can wait for the sequel. Ype Driessen allows us to look into his life of crazy, wonderful people, places and his own imposter syndrome (and by the way, he has imposter syndrome about having imposter syndrome). I fell in love with him a few pages in (the work was not going to get done because he was […]

Body Horror

The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson

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CN: rape, sexual assault, kidnapping. Seriously, this book is very triggering. I remember picking this book up randomly one day in a book store, thinking it was about religion. I cringed when I saw the subject matter: an attractive man kidnapped and held against his will, subject to torture and sexual menace at the hands of women. I looked it up on Goodreads and found it wasn’t considered grindhouse shock shlock, but a literary meditation on gender and power dynamics. I wasn’t confident to buy […]

A review for some but not for all

Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman

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We talk about books that are not for everyone, well, this is a review not for everyone. I bring up feelings, more than facts here. I have thoughts that you probably do not say today. But I am telling you, the review reader, this book affected me in ways I did not expect. This is my journey being introduced to a story I thought I knew, but came away with a different outlook about it. I have never read The Diary of Anne Frank. Though, […]

Life is just a bowl of (sour) cherries

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CBR10Bingo: Delicious Finding a book for this CBR10Bingo square was oddly tough for me, as nothing in my TBR list really jumped out at me as being obviously about food. When I started pulling my books off the shelf, one by one, and saw those gorgeous yellow cherries on the cover of Dina Nayeri’s Refuge, I knew this was the one.  Early in the book, Niloo’s father imparts his life’s philosophy to his young daughter.: “Life in Ardestoon is a shank of lamb so bursting […]

Ladies Who Paint

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When I first started reading The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, by Dominic Smith, I was pretty sure I didn’t like it. The first chapter felt like it was about dissatisfied rich people and I was not in the mood for that nonsense.  Happily, it is not about dissatisfied rich people, nor is it about the theft and forgery of a Dutch painting, which is what I thought it was about after I decided it wasn’t about rich people.  Really though, it’s about three […]

Two former lovers of Molly Lane.

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Honestly, if this book was written by any other author than Ian McEwan, it would have gotten two stars from me. But it was written by Ian McEwan, and there’s just something about the way he strings his words together that enchants me, regardless of how interesting I find whatever else is going on in his books at the time. Amsterdam is thankfully a concise book (with relatively large typeface and small pages), so no great investment of time on my part. The catalyst to the […]



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