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Teeth of the Dog by Jill Ciment

August 31, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This book has some blurbs on it that might speak to its influences, but not to its successes. We meet a couple on a small island country in the Pacific, an island divided into three very different principalities. The couple arrives and immediately becomes embroiled in some amount of local intrigue, but more so become the targets of a wayward American who eventually the wife in the couple sleeps with. In theory this would create a kind of love triangle, but in practice, because the […]

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vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:495 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: jill ciment, teeth of the dog ·
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The potential jury, seven of them including the alternate, wait in the hall while the lawyers horse-trade.

The Body in Question by Jill Ciment

August 25, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the most novel by the writer Jill Ciment, who I read and reviewed earlier this summer for her novel Act of God. This novel is about a jury for a murder trial, but focuses instead of on the trial and its complications with an affair between woman married to a much older, famous photographer, and an anatomy professor who meet on the jury, share a spark, and begin their affair shielded by the kind of weird anonymity that jury duty brings. The opening […]

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vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:488 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: jill ciment, the body in question ·
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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

June 26, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

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 […]

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vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:371 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: accident a day's news, act of god, alexander's bridge, and now you can go, christa wolf, ellen gilchrist, Emma Straub, Gillian Flynn, jill ciment, Nancy Mitford, The Grownup, The Vacationers, vendela vida, victory over japan, wigs on the green, Willa Cather ·
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