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Minty Alley by CLR James

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon

The Lazarus Project by Aleksandr Hemon

No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

March 14, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Lazarus Project This novel came out in 2008 in the middle of the 2008 presidential election. That doesn’t really have much to do with the plot here, but the novel makes several references to the Iraq war as a backdrop to parts of the present action, as well as the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. In addition, the novel spends a lot of time in early 20th century America, with a special focus on Eastern European immigrants in the US. The novel is mostly […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Aleksandr Hemon, Alice Hoffman, CLR James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Siegfried Sassoon

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:103 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Aleksandr Hemon, Alice Hoffman, CLR James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Siegfried Sassoon ·
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The Black Jacobins

The Black Jacobins by CLR James

February 14, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

You say you want a revolution? I’ve been reading a handful of books about various revolutions, and something that emerged in my thinking is how many of them are based in political and cultural revolution primarily, and how suspect I find them to often be. I also just read Karl Popper, and maybe he’s influencing my thinking there. Separate from that, I read a book like this one, which details the history of the San Domingo Revolution in Haiti in the 1790s and 1800s, where […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: CLR James

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:62 · Genres: History · Tags: CLR James ·
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