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Join Us Oct. 6-7 for the Banned Graphic Novels Book Club! Get Details  
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First mixed bag of the year!

Love Story by Erich Segal

In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner

Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton

Masscult and Midcult by Dwight Macdonald

Running Dog by Don Delillo

Chronicle in Stone by Ismael Kadare

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowksi

Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

War in Val D'orcia by Iris Origo

Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg by Joshua Chamberlain

February 22, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Love Story – 2/5 What do you say about a 50 year novel that feels dead on arrival? This is the novel that became the movie that is often referenced, and seldom watched. The novel is fine. It’s depressingly fine. Our narrator goes to Harvard, meets a girl, they get married, he goes to law school, she gets sick, and she dies. In the middle he loves her father, because he hates his father. His parents mildly but not so mildly disown him (lucky), and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Charles Bukowksi, Don DeLillo, Dwight Macdonald, Erich Segal, George Steiner, Iris Origo, Ismael Kadare, Joshua Chamberlain, Kobo Abe, Thomas Merton

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:77 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Charles Bukowksi, Don DeLillo, Dwight Macdonald, Erich Segal, George Steiner, Iris Origo, Ismael Kadare, Joshua Chamberlain, Kobo Abe, Thomas Merton ·
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