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This was not strictly true.

The Parade by Dave Eggers

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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 from a central part of the country to the capital. This is seen as a […]

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8/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:477 |

Strangers in a strange land

The Parade by Dave Eggers

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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 people would not like his style. It seems “done before” and maybe a tad self-indulgent […]

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6/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:212 |

Abner and Ian try to get it right (side up)

Abner & Ian Get Right-Sided Up by Dave Eggers

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Dave Eggers has at least two new books for kids this year with Abner & Ian Get Right-Sided Up is the second one I read. The first, Most Likely Tomorrow was not a huge hit for me story wise, but I enjoyed the illustrations greatly. However, I enjoyed the story immensely more than Abner & Ian. I was amazed that both books were done by the same author considering how radically different the stories are. Plus, they are being publisher by two different publishers and that was odd for me. The story of Abner and Ian is awkward. There is […]

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1/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Mostly Likely you’ll love this book if you give it a try

Tomorrow Most Likely by Dave Eggers

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A coworker asked me if Tomorrow Most Likely was as cute as it is supposed to me. I said, “Weeeellll… My logic is taking over.” How do you explain that maybe you will not have met Cousin Todd today? Or the sky is not blue today? After all the text of Dave Eggers makes it seem like it will happen. But then I thought, that this is a good discussion book. He does say “most likely” and when you do not meet a squirrel named Sid or touch a funky bug, you can talk about what you did do. Plus, […]

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1/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

Coffee is a food group

The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers

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This book took me a little longer to read than I anticipated, in part because I was so busy talking about it. It’s incredibly well-written, exceptionally fascinating, and a g-d TRUE STORY and if you’re anything like me, not fully awake till your third cup of coffee, you’ll love it. The Monk of Mokha is another book where I didn’t read the description closely enough and thought it would be a novel (I mean, c’mon, look at that cover). But nope. Pretty quickly it established that is a true story about a real person and what he did as is doing […]

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10/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:115 |

Has he ever met a person?

The Circle by Dave Eggers

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I kind of get why the movie fell flat–the source material wasn’t much to pull from. There’s an intriguing concept here. Imagine all digital connection (social media, searches, communication, commerce, streaming) was conducted through a single entity, here called The Circle. It started as an idea to dissuade trolls (forcing everyone to use their real, verified identity online) and has quickly evolved into a for-profit company that has a near monopoly on the internet. With your real identity, you can access everything you need to quickly and conveniently and it is so quick and convenient because it all runs through […]

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2/6/2018 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

Sad story, annoying envelope

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

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My friend S was going through books and passed on her copy of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius to me. I had heard it referenced before in many cultural contexts (including a Gilmore Girls episode, if memory serves) but had never read it. The only Dave Eggers I had read was The Circle which I found quite interesting (if some parts a little frustrating). I was eager to see how this work stacked up. The premise of the story is eye-catching. Dave Eggers’ parents die within a year of each other when he is about 21 or 22, and […]

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11/4/2017 's CBR9 Review No:119 |

Thirteen Nightmares in One Book

Surviving Justice by Dave Eggers

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Surviving Justice is not so much one integrated story of wrongful conviction and exoneration as it is thirteen completely distinct ones. Thirteen individuals tell their stories in their own words, using their own language and perspectives. They were all given long sentences, or even death. Their convictions were all very serious – murder, rape, child molestation. They were all exonerated, most with the help of the Innocence Project. There were some truly horrific anecdotes (a man arrested for child molestation as he walked to the store with his son on his shoulders, another whose daughter committed suicide as a result […]

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4/9/2017 's CBR9 Review No:7 |


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