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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

December 30, 2019 by thewheelbarrow 7 Comments

  As always, I am behind on my reviews but that means that I get to pick which book I would review for my 52nd of the year (I had six choices). I chose Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys for a few reasons. First, it was probably the best of the un-reviewed books on my list, though competition was fierce. Still unwritten are Wanderers by Chuck Wendig, How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin, and The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) by Nnedi Okorafor, all […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Colson Whitehead, historical fiction, juvenile detention, Tallahassee

thewheelbarrow's CBR11 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Colson Whitehead, historical fiction, juvenile detention, Tallahassee ·
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You’d have expected me to be just a minor character in this saga

April 29, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

This is a tough one to review. I really liked reading it, but in the end, it felt as though the exposition was finally wrapped up, and now I was ready for the story. But actually, the book was over. Not that there isn’t enough movement in Eileen, it’s just that the narrator tells us very early in the book that this is the story of her final days trapped in her terrible and sad life as she was raised – or more accurately, grew […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: alcholism, bulemia, cbr9, Fiction, juvenile detention, juvie, loneliness, Moshfegh, new york, orphan, Ottessa Moshfegh, police, sexual repression, small community

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: alcholism, bulemia, cbr9, Fiction, juvenile detention, juvie, loneliness, Moshfegh, new york, orphan, Ottessa Moshfegh, police, sexual repression, small community ·
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