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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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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

Abner & Ian Get Right-Sided Up by Dave Eggers

January 9, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Tomorrow Most Likely by Dave Eggers

January 9, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

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 […]

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