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A Brief Moment in Time– In the Stories and In My Mind Alike

Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

August 30, 2021 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

Filthy Animals is a novel composed of a group of short stories and characters that all link together in some form or another. The first story deals with an emotional young man named Lionel as he begins embarking on strange and perilous encounters with a man in an open relationship. From there, we also meet a babysitter who has exploded her life, a group of teenagers that engage in a night of emotional and physical violence against one another, dancers at an academy, and a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Brandon Taylor, filthy animals

Lisa Bee's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Brandon Taylor, filthy animals ·
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“People can be unpredictable in their cruelty.”

Real Life: A Novel by Brandon Taylor

October 4, 2020 by ElCicco 1 Comment

Cbr12bingo Debut BINGO diagonal, Money to Music Brandon Taylor’s debut novel Real Life has been nominated for a Booker Prize. Warning: contains scenes of violence, rape, abuse Real Life is the excellent debut novel from Brandon Taylor, nominated for the 2020 Booker Prize. Taylor shows the effect of memory, the past and racism on one man’s life. The setting is a mid-western university at the end of summer, and the protagonist Wallace is a graduate student who is gay and Black. The action takes place over […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Brandon Taylor, cbr12, cbr12bingo, debut, ElCicco, Fiction, Real Life

ElCicco's CBR12 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Brandon Taylor, cbr12, cbr12bingo, debut, ElCicco, Fiction, Real Life ·
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Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable.

Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

September 7, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Doctor Jekyll and My Hyde – 4/5 Stars This is still a wonderful and silly novel. I am thinking of teaching this novel for twelfth graders in a few weeks, but I am realizing from this reread that while the novel is short, there’s some stylistic flourishes that I think are going to stand in the way of enjoyment and analysis. Even the opening few pages, in just describing a weird scene in the street, the opening chapter has to think about the nature of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Brandon Taylor, Doctor Jekyll and Mr hyde, excession, Iain M. Banks, Real Life, robert louis stevenson

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:488 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Brandon Taylor, Doctor Jekyll and Mr hyde, excession, Iain M. Banks, Real Life, robert louis stevenson ·
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