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Review Dump 2: My Favorites of the Year. CBR14 Reviews 5-8.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

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In case I don’t get around to finishing all the reviews I was hoping to before the deadline…I wanted to make sure to share my thoughts on my four favorite books of the year: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow; This Time Tomorrow; The Candy House; and Sea of Tranquility. 2022 was an amazing year for books. I preordered Sea of Tranquility and received in on release day. I finished it on release day too. I was a little nervous that I wouldn’t love it quite […]

So many people spent their lives wishing to be understood. All Alice wanted was more time.

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

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CBR14BINGO: Time Square (Hitting the nail on the head here. Very literal. Time in the title. The whole plot is about Time. You get it.) Alice is about to turn 40. A milestone birthday for anyone, but particularly for someone who generally keeps their life on an unproblematic even keel. She lives in New York City where she grew up. Works in the admissions department of her old high school, walking the same hallways of her youth. She even has a convenient boyfriend that doesn’t make […]

“It was the worst fact of parenthood, that what you did mattered so much more than anything you said”

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

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I love time travel. To me, nothing is better than a good time travel book. (I know I say this every time I review a book with time travel.) I have read and enjoyed Emma Straub’s other books, so I was eagerly looking forward to this one. I was thrilled when I learned it would have time travel in it. (Also, you have to love Straub, as she owns an independence book store in Brooklyn.) In This Time Tomorrow, Alice’s life at 40 is not […]

Seeing how a hand carves out meaning with a pencil point lets us remember that the human touch is essential

Act of God by Jill Ciment

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

The Vacationers by Emma Straub

Accident/A Day's News by Christa Wolf

Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford

And Now You can Go by Vendela Vida

Victory over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist

Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather

The Two of Them by Joanna Russ

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Act of God – 3/5 Stars This is a funny and odd little book by a writer I don’t really know, but as I did a little research into has been writing and publishing for a while. This book is told from an ever-shifting third person limited perspective following different women who are responding to a crisis they all share. Kat and her twin sister Edith are older twins living in the rent-controlled apartment that belonged to their late mother. Their mother was a famous […]

Mundane Lovers

Modern Lovers by Emma Straub

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That title isn’t an insult.  I’m in my early thirties, but the spouse and I have been together since I was 18, so even though the main characters have a few years on me, a lot of this felt familiar. The whole book felt kind of familiar – the characters, the plot points, the story beats, the writing itself – but in a good way.  It’s like a Kate Spade dress.  Nothing life changing, but comfortable and well crafted. We follow the three living members […]

Double Bingo, so at least this book was good for something

The Vacationers by Emma Straub

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Ugh, I didn’t enjoy this book in the slightest, which I guess makes sense since it fills the Not My Wheelhouse square for Bingo. The Vacationers is the story of a family from New York that goes on vacation to Mallorca, along with their oldest son’s girlfriend, and the best friend of the wife and his husband. I would use names here to help distinguish between characters but I’ve honestly forgotten half of them already. Man, I just. . . I really hated this book. […]



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