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The Werewolf Principle by Clifford Simak

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Miracles of St Cuthbert by Bede of Jarrow

I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal

September 30, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Werewolf Principle – 3/5 Not actually about werewolves, or even one werewolf. We begin this novel with a senator and his daughter coming across a man who has apparently recently returned from a trip to space, for which he was gone for 200 years of Earth time. He has no memory beyond a few basics, nothing really to say, or anything to really explain his situation. Once we get going a little bit, we come to learn that it’s possible that there’s more than […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bede of Jarrow, Bohumil Hrabal, Clifford Simak, rainer maria rilke

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:555 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bede of Jarrow, Bohumil Hrabal, Clifford Simak, rainer maria rilke ·
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“I am a jug filled with water both magic and plain.”

Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

March 24, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

This was one of the books suggested within another book – the bookseller from The Sentence tried to convince her tough-to-please-book-loving customer to read this (or it was included in her list of perfect short books that they agreed on). This was a very short book – at 98 pages, this is less than an afternoon’s worth of reading. Unless you, like the protagonist, prefer to savor your books. Hanra reads his books one sentence at a time, the better to absorb him. Hanra has been […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bohumil Hrabal

booktrovert's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bohumil Hrabal ·
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