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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

June 30, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Forty years later, retiree Tony Webster slowly comes to new realizations about a tragic event from his early twenties and the part he played in what happened. After his first girlfriend leaves him for one of his best friends, said friend winds up taking his own life shortly after. And then, life moved on. Tony traveled around, got married, had a kid, got divorced, worked a steady job for forty years and retired. He’s put Veronica and Adrian mostly out of his mind until a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Julian Barnes

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Julian Barnes ·
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

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Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Adichie

June 26, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Sense of an Ending – 4/5 Stars This is a reread from a few years ago, and in the reread I like it a lot better now than I did then. I do think the plot goes a little off the rails but the narration, the narrator, the character development are all alive and rich, and so beautifully and painfully rendered. There’s a lot of emotional tenderness, sadness, pain, anger, and spirit here. Our narrator is a man in his late fifties or early […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Carrie Brownstein and Corrin Tucker, Chimamanda Adichie, Cris Beam, Gish Jen, Julian Barnes, Raymond Queneau, Robert Heinlein, Toni Morrison, vanessa hua

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:275 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Carrie Brownstein and Corrin Tucker, Chimamanda Adichie, Cris Beam, Gish Jen, Julian Barnes, Raymond Queneau, Robert Heinlein, Toni Morrison, vanessa hua ·
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The Adventure of the Myopic Solicitor

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes

March 5, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

The unlikely duo in the title of Julian Barnes’s novel are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, and George Edalji, a mixed-race son of a vicar who becomes the victim of a miscarriage of justice. Barnes follows each of them from their beginnings in life until the point at which circumstances conspire to throw them together. Sir Arthur’s life story is better known, but Barnes goes all the way back to the beginning when Arthur, son of a wastrel, resolves to make a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Julian Barnes

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Julian Barnes ·
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“To be polite, unoffendable, persistent, boring, friendly: in other words, to lie”

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

August 7, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

I read and loved Flaubert’s Parrot in college, so I was really looking forward to reading another book by Barnes, especially a book that won the Booker Prize in 2011.  The Sense of Ending is a slim novella that winds a lot of ideas into its relatively few pages.  The plot outline is fairly simple: our first person narrator, a retired Brit divorcee named Tony Webster, receives a lawyer’s letter informing him that he has been left a diary in a will.  The diary belonged […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Award Winner, cbr11bingo, Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

Wanderlustful's CBR11 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Award Winner, cbr11bingo, Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending ·
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How do you turn catastrophe into art? Nowadays the process is automatic.

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

May 13, 2019 by vel veeter 2 Comments

This is an odd book…a kind of novel in stories, but not one in which the stories are particularly connected together in terms of character or voice or plot. Instead they are thematically connected along a few various leitmotifs. One, is boats, ships and other such vessels playing along the the various ways in which boats are used as story elements and metaphors in the Bible. The opening story involves a nonhuman narrator on the Ark. This opens up and elucidates some of the fog […]

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vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:262 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters, Julian Barnes ·
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Good for Francophiles; for others, not so much

Something to Declare: Essays on France by Julian Barnes

October 29, 2017 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I hate not finishing a book. The literature student in me feels compelled to give every author his due, and there was a time when I would have slogged through anything no matter how disinterested I was. Now that I’m older and one would hope wiser, I’ve realized that life is short and there are times when I should cut my losses and move on to something that makes me happy. I’ve always had a love–meh relationship with Julian Barnes, so it surprised me at […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr9, essays, France, Francophile, Julian Barnes, KimMiE"

KimMiE"'s CBR9 Review No:21 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr9, essays, France, Francophile, Julian Barnes, KimMiE" ·
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