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> Tag: Booker prize

In a time when conspiracy theories run rampant, Sabrina seems all the more vital a read

Sabrina by Nick Drnaso

March 28, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

It’s not exactly been the best time for reading. I’m spending most of my breaks at work looking for a different job, since the one I started at two weeks ago sold me a bill of lies, and I’ve been sick for what feels like about half the time lately. Today, I’m on my second cold in a row. And when you’re tired on a good day, like I am, a cold will leave you with practically no energy to speak of. This means reading […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Booker prize, Graphic Novel, nick drnaso, sabrina

Travis_J_Smith's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Booker prize, Graphic Novel, nick drnaso, sabrina ·
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“Still, I wanted to believe; indeed I longed to; and, in the end, how much of belief comes from longing?”

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

June 27, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

I worked three jobs in the summer of 2005. I frequently worked more than one during any given day. Days off did not exist- except, miraculously, for the 4th of July. The history of the 4th holds no meaning here, just that I finally had a day to myself. I spent my one day off in bed, reading The Handmaid’s Tale from cover to cover. I did not leave the room. I turned down, much to the chagrin of the person whose bed it was, all opportunities […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: . hope, Award Winner, Booker prize, Canadian Lit, dystopia, espionage, faith, Gilead, Margaret Atwood, religious extremism, sequel, sisterhood, The Handmaid's Tale, tyranny

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:66 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: . hope, Award Winner, Booker prize, Canadian Lit, dystopia, espionage, faith, Gilead, Margaret Atwood, religious extremism, sequel, sisterhood, The Handmaid's Tale, tyranny ·
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A Stiff Upper Lip and a Blind Eye

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

May 17, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Oh, Mr. Stevens. A tragic hero if ever there was one. As a butler to a great house of Britain, he kept his eyes to the floor while the ravages of post-WWI Europe came to a boiling point in the halls of his dear Darlington Hall. Kazuo Ishiguro is a master of quiet suffering. His characters come to slow, stark, and utterly devastating conclusions just a moment before the enormity of their despair hits the reader. The Remains of the Day is arguably  his most celebrated […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Booker prize, classics, facism, film adaptation, great britain, historical fiction, Kazuo Ishiguro, landed gentry, merchany ivory production, post war europe, unrequited love, WWI, WWII

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Booker prize, classics, facism, film adaptation, great britain, historical fiction, Kazuo Ishiguro, landed gentry, merchany ivory production, post war europe, unrequited love, WWI, WWII ·
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It’s just so good and I really need to know if the other book deserved that prize too

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

April 6, 2020 by zinka 2 Comments

In Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo traces the impacts of identity, racism, xenophobia, feminism, slavery, classism, and so much more through many generations of British women of color who are not tied to each other only by blood but rather through encounters and relationships, some briefer than others. Each of these women has a different history and understanding of their relationship to the world that greatly affects how they view themselves and others around them. Each of their stories comes beautifully up against conflict where […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bernardine Evaristo, Booker prize, identity, Race

zinka's CBR12 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bernardine Evaristo, Booker prize, identity, Race ·
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All that shines

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

September 2, 2016 by Zirza 2 Comments

The Luminaries is a big book that requires a lot of you attention. So let me preface this review by saying that you should absolutely read The Luminaries. An easy read? No. But a very rewarding one. The plot is fairly straight-forward and, like so many things, borrows heavily, knowingly and jestingly from Victorian tradition. The place is New Zealand, the year is 1866. The New Zealand Gold Rush is in full swing in the tiny coastal town of Hokitika. Stranger Walter Moody, hoping to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery Tagged With: Booker, Booker prize, Eleanor Catton, Luminaries, man booker prize

Zirza's CBR8 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: Booker, Booker prize, Eleanor Catton, Luminaries, man booker prize ·
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Oh My Ghosh

The Ibis Trilogy: Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh

June 16, 2015 by Zirza 3 Comments

   “Oh! just, subtle, and mighty opium! that to the hearts of poor and rich alike, for the wounds that will never heal, and for ‘the pangs that tempt the spirit to rebel,’ bringest an assuaging balm; eloquent opium! that with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the purposes of wrath; and to the guilty man, for one night givest back the hopes of his youth, and hands washed pure of blood….” — Thomas de Quincey In 1839 the Chinese government, alarmed by the increasing number […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Amitav Ghosh, Booker prize, Flood of Fire, Ghosh, historical fiction, Ibis Trilogy, River of Smoke, Sea of Poppies

Zirza's CBR7 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Amitav Ghosh, Booker prize, Flood of Fire, Ghosh, historical fiction, Ibis Trilogy, River of Smoke, Sea of Poppies ·
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