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the december rush

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

The Haunting of Gillespie House by Darcy Coates

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And Your Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers

Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena

Near the Bone by Christina Henry

How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens

The Lightness by Emily Temple

The Very Nice Box by Eve Gleichman, Laura Blackett

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

December 31, 2021 by Jenna 2 Comments

Franny, Jet, and Vincent Owens take special joy in disobeying their mother’s rules. They wear red shoes and black clothes. They read books about magic. They fall in love. It’s the Lower East Side in the 60s. Who can blame them? I didn’t realize this was a prequel. I just picked it up at an airport bookstore when I had 3 hours to kill and a low phone battery. I’m grateful this is the only book that called out to me. I’m always drawn to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: Alice Hoffman, Christina Henry, Darcy Coates, dave eggers, Emily Temple, Eve Gleichman, Laura Blackett, Lydia Millet, Seanan McGuire, Shari Lapena, Sonke Ahrens, Zakiya Dalila Harris

Jenna's CBR13 Review No:51 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: Alice Hoffman, Christina Henry, Darcy Coates, dave eggers, Emily Temple, Eve Gleichman, Laura Blackett, Lydia Millet, Seanan McGuire, Shari Lapena, Sonke Ahrens, Zakiya Dalila Harris ·
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Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers

April 19, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This recent novel from Dave Eggers reminds me a lot of Nicholson Baker’s novel Checkpoint, which involved two friends meeting up in Washington DC for the first time in years. One friend’s anger, rage, and sadness at the direction of the country (under Bush) had calcified into fossil and he was explaining this to his new friend while also explaining his (ridiculous) plan to kill the president. In this novel, we have a series of dialogs between a man in his 30s and different people […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dave eggers

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:181 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dave eggers ·
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Round, like a circle in a spiral…

The Circle by Dave Eggers

April 14, 2020 by Carriejay Leave a Comment

Mae Holland escapes her dreary office job through the help of a good word from her best friend, and ends up working at The Circle, THE tech company du jour. The Circle runs everything, keeping all your accounts and data in one, easily accessible place. The brightest minds of their generation are working there, coming up with new ways to improve the world. Mae starts there in Customer Experience, answering questions and getting ratings for her performance. Mae is good at her job, but struggles […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dave eggers

Carriejay's CBR12 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dave eggers ·
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Each word clicking into place as if he were making a puzzle out of glass

The Lifters by Dave Eggers

September 7, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

cbr11bingo:  Readers Choice (swapping in the COLLECTION square) Twelve-year-old Granite Flowerpetal doesn’t love his name, even though his father named him Granite to grant him strength. He tries to rebrand himself as “Gran” and while it does take on, he quickly has second thoughts. But his new identity is only one piece of his jumbled up life.  His parents, seeking new work for his father, have moved them to the Flowerpot family hometown and house, in a town whimsically named Carousel after the craft of […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, Children's Books, children's lit, dave eggers, kid lit, middle grade

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:61 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, Children's Books, children's lit, dave eggers, kid lit, middle grade ·
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This was not strictly true.

The Parade by Dave Eggers

August 23, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the newest Dave Eggers novel and like many of his other novels, it’s a well-written novel with an overly simplistic conceit and a deeply predictable and annoyingly cliched ending. It’s different from his more serious novels like What is the What and Heroes of the Frontier where an idea and characters are explored so much as a conceit is brought to fruition. The novel takes place in some kind of developing world post-conflict zone in which two construction workers are paving a road […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dave eggers, the parade

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:477 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dave eggers, the parade ·
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Strangers in a strange land

The Parade by Dave Eggers

June 7, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

My goal this year was to read authors and genres I do not usually read. I started out strong but fell back to my comfort zone quickly. Therefore, on a whim, I picked up a damaged copy of Dave Eggers’ The Parade. At first, I did not see any damage. At least, not outwards. Opening it up, I learned the book was printed upside down. Still readable but should have been my first clue to the nature of the book. I can understand why some […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Science Fiction Tagged With: dave eggers

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:212 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Science Fiction · Tags: dave eggers ·
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