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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

We Always Treat Women too Well by Raymond Queneau

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

I, Autohouse by Gish Jen

American Santa by Vanessa Hua

One More Hour by Carrie Brownstein and Corrin Tucker

My Therapist, My Lover by Cris Beam

Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Adichie

June 26, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Sense of an Ending – 4/5 Stars This is a reread from a few years ago, and in the reread I like it a lot better now than I did then. I do think the plot goes a little off the rails but the narration, the narrator, the character development are all alive and rich, and so beautifully and painfully rendered. There’s a lot of emotional tenderness, sadness, pain, anger, and spirit here. Our narrator is a man in his late fifties or early […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Carrie Brownstein and Corrin Tucker, Chimamanda Adichie, Cris Beam, Gish Jen, Julian Barnes, Raymond Queneau, Robert Heinlein, Toni Morrison, vanessa hua

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:275 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Carrie Brownstein and Corrin Tucker, Chimamanda Adichie, Cris Beam, Gish Jen, Julian Barnes, Raymond Queneau, Robert Heinlein, Toni Morrison, vanessa hua ·
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July 11, 2015 by faintingviolet 13 Comments

In conversation with some friends a couple months ago it occurred to me that I don’t know anyone who is transgender. Or, I might, but I don’t know. I also realized that I have a rather cursory understanding about the issues facing the Transgender community outside of the coverage of said issues in the media over the past few years.  It was fortuitous then that as part of the Read Harder Challenge task number five is reading a book either about or by someone who identifies […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Cris Beam, faintingviolet, LGBTQ, read harder challenge, Transparent

faintingviolet's CBR7 Review No:52 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Cris Beam, faintingviolet, LGBTQ, read harder challenge, Transparent ·
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